Angels Flight (Harry Bosch, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #8)

by Michael Connelly

He thought about what Carla Entrenkin had said to him on Saturday night, about anger and violence filling the void left when hope is taken away. He thought about the void that was inside himself now and wondered what he would fill it with.

“Does all of this seem plausible? That he would first kill Howard and then himself? That woman on the train, too?” “If you asked me that yesterday I would have said never in a million years. But today I feel like I couldn’t read myself let alone anybody else. We have a saying when we can’t explain things. The evidence is what it is… And we leave it at that.”

HAPPY IS THE MAN WHO FINDS REFUGE IN HIMSELF

thought about Chastain and his final scream, a wail so loud and horrible as to be almost inhuman. It was the sound of fallen angels in their flight to hell. Bosch knew he could never allow himself to forget it.