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 murder cases he so wants to solve. He is on a DROP - Deferred Retirement Optional Plan - three years until, Harry it's over (sniff, sniff What will I do without him?). He has his 15 yr old daughter living with him, and him such a loner and confirmed bachelor. I mean he's not the greatest ha ha guy in the world rather he's moody and intense. The cold case assigned him has an interesting element of DNA, which can't be, still it gets bumped for a maybe yes, maybe no, suicide of a councilman's son. The councilman is Bosch's old enemy Irvine Irving. Against direction Harry continues to work the cold case while solving the present one which brings him trouble from 'high jingo' - the higher ups. I found the cold case is more interesting as a murder story. A plus regarding how Connelly writes: A fan of (too) many crime novels, it appears more and more authors' descriptions of torture and blood letting are as gorey as they can imagine. For me, it's a turn off from what could be good writing and plot. Connelly creates that "OH!" shock without having to do that because he is truly a master writer. And this novel proves it, again.