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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780446619073
ISBN number: 0446619078
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Page Count: 528
Printing Date: November 01, 2007
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Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At very first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered, and no one has ever been accused of the crime.
With the spare time a suspension brings, Harry opens up the thirty-year-old file on the case and is irresistibly drawn into a past he has always avoided. It's clear that the case was fumbled and the smell of a cover-up is unmistakable. Someone powerful was able to divert justice and Harry vows to uncover the truth. As he relentlessly follows the broken pieces of the case, the stirred interest causes new murders and pushes Harry to the edge of his job... and his life.
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SINCE I JUST RECEIVED THIS BOOK & HAVEN'T READ IT YET, I CANNOT WRITE A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW. BUT, JUDGING FROM THE OTHER "HARRY BOSCH" BOOKS, I HAVE ALREADY READ, I CAN SAFELY SAY THAT I WILL BE ENJOYING THIS BOOK, WHEN I START READING IT.
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Harry Bosch is on administrative leave after assaulting a police supervisor. Trying to cope with the underlying cause of his anger, he is drawn into a cold case - the unsolved murder of his mother about 30 years previously. There are people who want the case to stay cold. Powerful people have an interest, and there are political considerations. A high placed political fixer is involved. Harry finds additional details from his mother's past.
Like most good mysteries, there are a couple surprising twists. There is a digression into Harry's new love life, and a side issue about his earthquake damaged house.
Readers who like this novel might also like Executive Privilege by Philip Margolin.
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Connelly is a very talented writer. This is a good story, and the ending was a surprise. I gave it only three stars because it would have been better without the gratuitous sex scene.
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Michael Connelly's character, Harry Bosch, is like Sherlock Holmes: so real the reader assumes he is an actual, living person. I've read almost all of the Bosch mysteries, and this is my favorite. Since he's investigating a cold case-his mother's murder-it gives readers more insight into Harry's character as formed by life with his mother and after her death, as well as the ensuing events in his life. As always, Michael Connelly's prose is gorgeous.
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If you haven't read the books that precede this one in the Harry Bosch series, I strongly urge you to stop reading this review and any others about The Last Coyote and go back to The Black Echo and work forward in order the books were published. You'll miss a lot of the character development that makes this such a special book unless you've seen a lot of Harry at work before he takes on this case while suspended for stress leave.
As this book opens, Harry is receiving "counseling" after attacking his superior officer. Harry finds this to be like listening to fingernail scratches on a chalkboard. He's also having house problems: His stilt-based house with a great view has been condemned by the city after the big earthquake. The earthquake also shook his girlfriend so much that she left town.
Frustrated that he can't work, Harry decides to take a look at the file on his mother's death. From there, he begins to work the case. It's a tremendous opportunity for readers to understand Harry's youthful years much better. As you might expect, not all things are as they seemed at the time of the murder. Uncovering the truth is difficult and painful. But in the end, justice is done.
One of the beauties of this book is how much it shows about a range of emotions and motives that people employ to look out for themselves. In a way, Harry is an aficionado of depravity, it's part of being human. It's just that he has to stop it when it goes too far . . . or arrange for justice when the eggs cannot be unscrambled any more.
I don't recall a more bittersweet story in this series. You'll be thinking at the end: What if?
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