false 84777 32 Since his first appearance in 1992's Edgar-winning <I>The Black Echo</I>, Detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch has joined Dennis Lehane's Patrick and Angie, George Pelecanos's Derek Strange, and Greg Rucka's Atticus Kodiak in the pantheon of new-school hard-boiled detectives. Rather than giving Bosch a clever gimmick (like Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme, who is a quadriplegic), Michael Connelly embraces the noir archetype: Bosch, an L.A. homicide detective, is a chain-smoking loner who refuses to play by his superiors' rules. Although he has quit smoking, Harry's still the same tightlipped outsider, taking each crime as a personal affront as he tries to cleanse his beloved city of the darkness he sees engulfing it. In <I>City of Bones</I>, Connelly's eighth Bosch title, Bosch and his well-dressed partner, Jerry Edgar, are working to identify a child's skeleton, buried for 20 years in the forest off Hollywood's Wonderland Drive, and to bring the killer to belated justice. For Bosch this is more than just another homicide, as the mystery child, beaten and abandoned, comes to represent much of what he sees as evil in his city. Add in a tragic love affair with a fellow cop, complications from overzealous media, and the growing feeling that he's fighting a losing battle about which no one cares, and the usually stoic Bosch is pushed to his limits. This isn't the strongest plot Connelly has concocted for Bosch, but it leads to an ending the whole series has been building toward. The conclusion may not shock longtime fans, but it will leave them wondering where the series will go from here. <I>--Benjamin Reese</I> 1128039 2002 City Of Bones (Harry Bosch, #8) total:2234|5:471|4:1048|3:641|2:67|1:7| 2234 8611 2838 112 4 1 false false Fri Mar 28 13:09:34 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 13:14:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 07 08:59:27 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 08:59:34 -0700 2009 (from the inside flap)



On New Year's Day, Detective Harry Bosch fields a call that a dog has found a bone--a bone that the dog's owner, a doctor, feels certain is a human bone. Bosch investigates, and that chance discovery leads h...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 07:31:20 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 07:49:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 12:43:59 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 12:49:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Thu Nov 13 05:23:50 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 05:24:55 -0800 2008 cop ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 19 17:27:16 -0800 2008 Fri Jun 06 21:06:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 28 06:25:23 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 05:48:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Wed Apr 29 13:28:56 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 13:31:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 18 11:21:39 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 11:24:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 22:51:08 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 23:28:07 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 09 13:20:59 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 08:25:03 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 13:20:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 19:41:48 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 07:10:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 06:03:29 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 05:41:01 -0700 2009
Dog finds a human bone in the woods, Harry gets the call, mystery begins.


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On New Year's Day, a dog brings his owner a bone that he recognizes as human. Harry Bosch is the LAPD det...more...]]>