by Michael Connelly (Author)
After three years out of the LAPD, Harry Bosch returns, to find the department a different place from the one he left. A new Police Chief has been brought over from New York to give the place a thorough clean up from top to bottom. Working with his former cop partner, Kiz Rider, Harry is assigned to the department's Open-Unsolved Unit, working on the thousands of cold cases that haunt the LAPD's files. These detectives are the Closers - they put a shovel in the dirt and turn over the past. By applying new techniques to old evidence they aim to unearth some hidden killers and bring them to justice, for 'a city that forgets its murder victims is a city lost'. Harry and Kiz are given a politically sensitive case when a DNA match connects a white supremacist to the 1988 murder of Rebecca Verloren, a sixteen-year-old girl. Becky was of mixed race, and the case appears to have a racial angle. This was LA before the riots and Rodney King; the city was a powder keg waiting for a match. The detectives who worked the case all those years ago seem to have done a decent job, but something doesn't fit. Meanwhile Harry's nemesis, Deputy Chief Irving, is watching him.In the new 'clean' LAPD Irving has been sidelined to a meaningless job. Compelled by vengeance, he hopes that Harry will make a slip ...THE CLOSERS takes off like a speeding bullet and never lets up. Authentic, dark and complex, it confirms Michael Connelly's status as a number one bestseller and a master of modern detective fiction.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Orion
Published: 16 May 2005
ISBN 10: 075286582X
ISBN 13: 9780752865829
Book Overview: Connelly is a No.1 bestselling author in hardback (THE NARROWS) and mass market paperback (LOST LIGHT) He is also No.1 in Ireland, Australia, France and Italy His first novel THE BLACK ECHO won the Edgar Award; BLOOD WORK was nominated for an Edgar; ANGELS FLIGHT and CITY OF BONES for the Gold Dagger With THE NARROWS Connelly's trade sales leapt by 45 per cent to over 170,000 copies Major movie deals are in place for all Connelly's novels Connelly gets consistently brilliant reviews and is seen as one of the leading, if not the leading, American crime writer of his generation