The Burning Room
Books | Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
4.4
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Michael Connelly
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot . . . very fast.In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other clues are virtually nonexistent. Even a veteran cop would find this one tough going, but Bosch's new partner, Detective Lucia Soto, has no homicide experience. A young star in the department, Soto has been assigned to Bosch so that he can pass on to her his hard-won expertise.Now Bosch and Soto are tasked with solving a murder that turns out to be highly charged and politically sensitive. Beginning with the bullet that has been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old evidence, and these soon reveal that the shooting was anything but random.As their investigation picks up speed, it leads to another unsolved case with even greater stakes: the deaths of several children in a fire that occurred twenty years ago. But when their work starts to threaten careers and lives, Bosch and Soto must decide whether it is worth risking everything to find the truth, or if it's safer to let some secrets stay buried.In a swiftly-moving novel as relentless and compelling as its hero, Michael Connelly shows once again why Harry Bosch is "one of the most popular and enduring figures in American crime fiction" (Chicago Tribune).
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Author
Michael Connelly
Pages
400
Publisher
Little, Brown
Published Date
2014-11-03
ISBN
0316225924 9780316225922
Ratings
Google: 5
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"I'm so happy with Titus Welliver narrating this. I have read a lot of the Harry Bosch books (I've fallen a little bit behind though) and I'm excited to listen to Titus to catch up.<br/><br/>One of the things I love and hate about the Bosch series is that Connelly makes it real. I mean that as in Bosch might be really good at his job, but not everyone loves him. People are out to get him. His time in law enforcement isn't stagnant and we see his career change all the time. Since I've cheated, I kinda know where his career is headed (I just had to read the Ballard books before catching up). Bosch isn't perfect, nor does he claim to be. Still love this character after all this time."