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...
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Jan 08, 2012
June
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This is how much I enjoy Michael Connelly's "Harry Bosch" series - I bought a hardcopy and gifted to myself as a Christmas present. I couldn't wait to hop into bed with Harry. I savored each page and even reread a few the next night to set the flavor of the evening's reading. Connelly is at his finest - once again - even though he does break some writing rules by telling rather than showing - so like who cares? It works. Harry is back from retirement working cold cases, not the active
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Jan 17, 2012
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Detective Harry Bosch is contemplating retirement - again. The Deferred Retirement Option Plan (The DROP) gives him another 39 months. He enjoys his work with LA's Open-Unsolved unit, working on cases that went cold up to 50 years ago. Currently he's trying to solve the 1989 murder of a young woman. But perhaps, he thinks, he's losing his edge. Besides, there's Maddie, his teenaged daughter, to think of, and wouldn't it be great to be able to spend more time with her? So Harry, who's a dedicated
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Dec 21, 2011
Jane
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Not much action or adrenaline, but excellent police procedural investigating. I smiled a lot.
One of the reasons I gave this 5 stars might be because I have read all the other Bosch books, and I miss him. I was so happy to have another book to read, but also it was very good. One thing I love about Bosch is his intense mission in life – catching murderers. It was satisfying. I enjoyed his thinking, comments, decisions, and actions.
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One of the reasons I gave this 5 stars might be because I have read all the other Bosch books, and I miss him. I was so happy to have another book to read, but also it was very good. One thing I love about Bosch is his intense mission in life – catching murderers. It was satisfying. I enjoyed his thinking, comments, decisions, and actions.
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Feb 21, 2012
Daniel
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The newest in the popular (with me too) Harry Bosch series has Harry working two cases, one old, one new, and only our hero can bridge the gap between old school and new when it comes to good old fashioned gum shoe field work that gets results. Connelly, clearly at the top of his game with this great read bangs out another twisty, turny, high end thriller with a decided personal side that he weaves in with his articulate mastery.
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Feb 22, 2012
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I got started with Connelly after reading the Lincoln Lawyer when the movie came out; great book by the way. So this past year I have been reading his backlist consisting of intertwining characters over 25 books. The main character through the majority of the works, including The Drop, has been Harry Bosch, grizzled detective in the LAPD.
The Drop refers to the LAPD notification that Harry only has so many years before he will be forced out in retirement, which is distressing to us More...
The Drop refers to the LAPD notification that Harry only has so many years before he will be forced out in retirement, which is distressing to us More...
Feb 19, 2012
Nena
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Actually, I downloaded this MP3 version after a long waiting-list and much anticipation. I find myself somewhat disappointed on several levels.
To begin with, let's start with the narration. I love Len Cariou and feel he is the true voice of Harry Bosch, but as all good things must come to an end, I feel that Len should retire from narrating the Bosch books and hand the reigns over to someone else. It was painful for me listening to him become short of breath at the end of almost More...
To begin with, let's start with the narration. I love Len Cariou and feel he is the true voice of Harry Bosch, but as all good things must come to an end, I feel that Len should retire from narrating the Bosch books and hand the reigns over to someone else. It was painful for me listening to him become short of breath at the end of almost More...
Feb 11, 2012
David
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High jingo. That is the force Detective Harry Bosch battles throughout the book -- the battle waged above his head by the powers-that-be in the city of Los Angeles. This book is a bit of a departure for Michael Connelly in that there are a number of philosophical and ethical questions that the characters in the story wrestle with as the plot plays out. What is the nature of evil? Are there some lives that are so heinous they should not be saved? Can the police bend the rules in the interest
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Feb 10, 2012
Andy
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Another of my wife's holiday reads while travelling round India. I've never read any of this series before (and didn't even know for sure whether it was a series as I was reading) so came into it fairly fresh. Despite that it didn't seem to make much difference with understanding or enjoyment and I don't feel I really missed much.
It's not really my usual kind of book; it was an easy read, with somewhat clichéd dialogue, an annoying repetition of the phrase 'high jingo' and a generic More...
It's not really my usual kind of book; it was an easy read, with somewhat clichéd dialogue, an annoying repetition of the phrase 'high jingo' and a generic More...
Feb 09, 2012
Donna
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For me Michael Connelly consistently tells a great story. Harry Bosh is a character who I have journeyed with for many years. We have gotten to see how time and age have made Harry who he is, and why he keeps going.
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 somet More...
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 somet More...
Feb 01, 2012
Luanne
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Harry Bosch returns in Michael Connelly's latest book - The Drop. Harry has three years left until mandatory retirement kicks in. He's working in the cold case squad now. When he and his partner Chu get a DNA hit from a twenty year old sample, they think a mistake has been made. The perp is in the system, but he would have been eight years old at the time. But just as they start investigating further, they are told to drop everything to investigate the death of a prominent city counciller's son.
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Jan 04, 2012
Bev
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Hot off the presses is Connelly's latest Harry Bosch novel. As "The Fifth Witness" taught the reader about how an attorney builds a case, the style of this one was an in-depth look at how a detective builds a case. Harry is looking at retirement and is eager to solve lots of cases. He now works in the OU unit (Open Unsolved) and though this seems to be a slow season, he suddenly has two cases to solved, one open unsolved case of the rape and murder of a young girl 17 years ago, the
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Jan 03, 2012
Michelle
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Love Harry Bosch and really enjoyed both the cases in this one.
Case #1 Harry is asked by the powers that be to investigate the apparent suicide of Irvin Irving's son George. Was it suicide or was it murder related to his job as an attorney/lobbyist. Was there impropriety attached to his handling of a cab company's bid for a new locale 'lease'? While this mystery was apparently solved in this installment, there is still an angle that Harry may explore further in the next.
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Case #1 Harry is asked by the powers that be to investigate the apparent suicide of Irvin Irving's son George. Was it suicide or was it murder related to his job as an attorney/lobbyist. Was there impropriety attached to his handling of a cab company's bid for a new locale 'lease'? While this mystery was apparently solved in this installment, there is still an angle that Harry may explore further in the next.
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Dec 29, 2011
Mal
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Michael Connelly’s Latest: Another Thoroughly Satisfying Police Procedural
You might think that after writing 25 other novels and a slew of short stories Michael Connelly’s latest book would show at least a hint of boredom. Instead, the man keeps getting better and better. The Drop, Connelly’s 17th novel about Los Angeles police detective Hieronymous “Harry” Bosch, is one of his very best.
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You might think that after writing 25 other novels and a slew of short stories Michael Connelly’s latest book would show at least a hint of boredom. Instead, the man keeps getting better and better. The Drop, Connelly’s 17th novel about Los Angeles police detective Hieronymous “Harry” Bosch, is one of his very best.
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Dec 23, 2011
Ishmael
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I too am a sucker for Harry Bosch books. Good police procedural but so-so plotting. Two completely separate cases, one a potential suicide, the other a cold-case murdered child, both of which proceed in a linear, straight-forward fashion, with few surprizes along the way. What I found interesting in this book is the shift in relationships. Harry finally decides his cold case partner (David Chu) is a valuable partner and begins to treat him as such. The other shift is with Kiz, his former partner
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Dec 23, 2011
Bill
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The intensely focused Harry Bosch is back in an unsolved open case again that is almost twenty years old. New scientific tools discover that the blood found in the death of a tortured 19 year old girl belongs to an 8 year old boy who obviously couldn't have been the killer. But this anomalous clue is enough for Harry--along with partner David Chu--to get started on the case. Once they begin the legwork Harry is called to the police chief's office to take the lead on the supposedly suicide of a c
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Dec 18, 2011
Sidna
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Connelly has done it again! Wow! His latest Harry Bosch novel is a page-turner, although I understand that people who use Kindles and Nooks don't know what that means! I started it one night and couldn't put it down until I fell asleep at 3 a.m. I finished it about 1 a.m. the next night. Just couldn't stop reading until I found out what happened.
Harry has been assigned to the Open-Unsolved unit. The day he and his partner David Chu are assigned s 30-year old unsolved case, Councilman I More...
Harry has been assigned to the Open-Unsolved unit. The day he and his partner David Chu are assigned s 30-year old unsolved case, Councilman I More...
Dec 17, 2011
Randi
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Someday, I will not be unduly influenced by reviews. Someday, I will be able to deliniate between those reviewers whose comments I agree with -- and those I usually dont.
This is not that day.
OMG! This book got like, 4-stars everywhere! The Stephen King kudo I largely ignored, since he and Connolly appear to be kissy-kissy book-bros. But...every review I read gushed about the "twist ending you'll never see coming." That was enuf for me! Right.
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This is not that day.
OMG! This book got like, 4-stars everywhere! The Stephen King kudo I largely ignored, since he and Connolly appear to be kissy-kissy book-bros. But...every review I read gushed about the "twist ending you'll never see coming." That was enuf for me! Right.
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Dec 16, 2011
Alla
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In “The drop” Michael Connelly announces Detective Bosch’s (the lead character in many of Connelly’s mysteries) eventual retirement –and then slams him with two complicated cases. Simultaneously Bosch is forced to figure out how an eight-year-old (now a twenty-nine year old convicted sex offender) could be charged for raping and killing a grown up woman in a 1989 case, and in the present, whether the apparent suicide of Councilman Irving’s son—who fell to his death from a balcony during his sta
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Dec 14, 2011
Mark
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This was my first Michael Connelly -- FINALLY!
First, the reader of this audio: Len Cariou has a gruff old man's voice that was a little too breathy to be easily understood at times. It also made me worry for his health, to be honest, which was distracting. Otherwise, he was perfect for the protagonist of this story, Harry Bosch. Bosch is a veteran in the LAPD who's seen everything. As such, I guess a little bit of breathlessness probably isn't any more than par for the course.
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First, the reader of this audio: Len Cariou has a gruff old man's voice that was a little too breathy to be easily understood at times. It also made me worry for his health, to be honest, which was distracting. Otherwise, he was perfect for the protagonist of this story, Harry Bosch. Bosch is a veteran in the LAPD who's seen everything. As such, I guess a little bit of breathlessness probably isn't any more than par for the course.
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Dec 09, 2011
Susan
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I will fully admit, I am not a die-hard Harry Bosch fan. I find the series very hit and miss, and there have been a few of the books I have not been able to finish. Happily, this was not one of those. I really was not able to put this book down. The plot drives relentlessly forward though the entire book. Warning, this book contains some extremely disturbing subject matter, however Michael Connelly did not get as graphic has he potentially could have.
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Dec 05, 2011
Tony
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THE DROP. (2011). Michael Connelly. *****.
Harry Bosch isn’t ready to retire – yet, so he has been assigned to the Deferred Retirement Option Plan. He has been granted three-and-a-half years before he will face mandatory retirement from the LAPD. He has chosen to work out his remaining years on a cold-case squad (a very popular department in today’s crime novels) where he and his new partner, David Chu, come across a new piece of evidence in a rape-murder case that happened in 1989. More...
Harry Bosch isn’t ready to retire – yet, so he has been assigned to the Deferred Retirement Option Plan. He has been granted three-and-a-half years before he will face mandatory retirement from the LAPD. He has chosen to work out his remaining years on a cold-case squad (a very popular department in today’s crime novels) where he and his new partner, David Chu, come across a new piece of evidence in a rape-murder case that happened in 1989. More...
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Dec 02, 2011
Karen
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I have to admit, when I first picked up this book and read a few pages, I wondered what the hell Connelly was doing: breaking the cardinal rule of creative writing he commenced this 16th Harry Bosch book by telling, not showing. The opening narrative, while utterly readable and interesting, was also didactic: pure and simple, as it painstakingly explicated the background to the cold case or unsolved operations unit. I was surprised and wondering where on earth Connelly was taking his readers....
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Nov 20, 2011
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Harry Bosch is working in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where cases dating back up to 50 years are re-examined whenever new evidence warrants such action.
When a DNA hit comes back giving the name of a possible suspect to an unsolved rape-murder of a young girl more than 20 years ago, it appears to be a slam-dunk at first glance. However, a closer look at the evidence shows that, although Clayton Pell, the person identified, is a convicted rapist and seems to fit the crime quite well, something ha More...
When a DNA hit comes back giving the name of a possible suspect to an unsolved rape-murder of a young girl more than 20 years ago, it appears to be a slam-dunk at first glance. However, a closer look at the evidence shows that, although Clayton Pell, the person identified, is a convicted rapist and seems to fit the crime quite well, something ha More...
Nov 18, 2011
Lakis
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Harry Bosch is back, and even though he feels kind of rusty, he’s as good as ever. The good detective is still working in the open-unsolved unit and as we find out right from the start the higher ups have decided to keep him in the Los Angeles police force for four more years, which in real time translates into thirty-nine months. Harry, who does not wish under any circumstances to retire, receives the news as a blessing. It’s not that he wouldn’t be able to live outside the force; it’s just tha
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Nov 10, 2011
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Nov 01, 2011
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THE DROP by Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch Series #17
11/11 - Little, Brown & Company – Hardcover, 400 pages
Is nothing uncomplicated when politics are involved?
Detective Harry Bosch has the opportunity to continue his work in the Open/Unsolved Unit with his extension to stay on approved. Harry has been working the cold cases long enough to get have a rhythm down so that he gets the work done and still be home for dinner with his daughter. Doing his best to be a good d More...
Harry Bosch Series #17
11/11 - Little, Brown & Company – Hardcover, 400 pages
Is nothing uncomplicated when politics are involved?
Detective Harry Bosch has the opportunity to continue his work in the Open/Unsolved Unit with his extension to stay on approved. Harry has been working the cold cases long enough to get have a rhythm down so that he gets the work done and still be home for dinner with his daughter. Doing his best to be a good d More...
Jan 11, 2012
Jeanne
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Connelly’s latest with favourite detective Harry Bosch. This time Harry and his partner are working on two very different investigations. In the middle of working on a cold-case murder, Harry is called in unexpectedly to investigate the death of the son of his former nemesis, Councilman Irvin Irving. Irving has asked for Bosch specifically, despite their longstanding animosity. This adds to the mystery.
As well as the two investigations, we see Bosch’s relationship with his daughter slowly d More...
As well as the two investigations, we see Bosch’s relationship with his daughter slowly d More...
Dec 23, 2011
Susie
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Oh Harry how I have missed you! It is so great to have a book that is just Harry not him as a secondary character. It was also nice to see how Harry is handling being a single dad and I enjoyed his relationship with his daughter.
Harry is working a cold case where the DNA samples don’t seem to add up and then he is called in on a new case but this is no cold case, this is a City Councilman’s son who has taken a header off a balcony at a local hotel and the Councilman wants Harry on th More...
Harry is working a cold case where the DNA samples don’t seem to add up and then he is called in on a new case but this is no cold case, this is a City Councilman’s son who has taken a header off a balcony at a local hotel and the Councilman wants Harry on th More...
Nov 29, 2011
Kelly
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Harry Bosch is investigating two cases in The Drop. The first is a hit on a cold case. A smear of blood on a murder victim's neck leads to a convicted rapist. It seems perfect...except when the woman was killed, the suspect was eight years old. The other is a seemingly open-and-shut case. A man checks into the Chateau Marmont and commits suicide by jumping from his seventh floor balcony. Except it may not be that simple. He's the son of Councilman Irvin Irving (who you may remember from h
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