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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780446619073 ISBN: 0446619078 Label: Grand Central Publishing Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 528 Publication Date: November 01, 2007 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Studio: Grand Central Publishing Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A cold caseHarry 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 ... Read More Rating:  - Good writing for this genreConnelly 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. Rating:  - One of Connelly's best Bosch novels.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. Rating: - Everybody Counts . . . or Nobody CountsIf 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 ... Read More Rating: - Love HarryJust love Harry Bosch. The stories are gritting, complex and well executed with believable characters. What else do you want!? 
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