- This edition an e-book made available on Libby by my local library
- Published 2011
- The Drop is the 24th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the fifteenth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch.
- author website
Synopsis (author website )
Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.
DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab’s DNA cases currently in court.
Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman Irvin Irving’s son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont. Irving, Bosch’s longtime nemesis, has demanded that Harry handle the investigation. Relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department.
My Take
Two very different stories in this novel, with Harry Bosch under political pressure to focus on resolving whether a recent death is murder or suicide.
Harry's partner gets very frustrated when Harry keeps excluding him from decision making. The partner does the unforgiveable and leaks bit of their investigation to the press.
Meanwhile there is a case that Harry really wants to focus on.
A good read.
My rating: 4.5
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