The Burning Room

Michael Connelly

Nov 2014 · Sold by Little, Brown

About this ebook

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot . . . very fast.
In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other clues are virtually nonexistent. Even a veteran cop would find this one tough going, but Bosch's new partner, Detective Lucia Soto, has no homicide experience. A young star in the department, Soto has been assigned to Bosch so that he can pass on to her his hard-won expertise.
Now Bosch and Soto are tasked with solving a murder that turns out to be highly charged and politically sensitive. Beginning with the bullet that has been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old evidence, and these soon reveal that the shooting was anything but random.
As their investigation picks up speed, it leads to another unsolved case with even greater stakes: the deaths of several children in a fire that occurred twenty years ago. But when their work starts to threaten careers and lives, Bosch and Soto must decide whether it is worth risking everything to find the truth, or if it's safer to let some secrets stay buried.
In a swiftly-moving novel as relentless and compelling as its hero, Michael Connelly shows once again why Harry Bosch is "one of the most popular and enduring figures in American crime fiction" (Chicago Tribune).

Ratings and reviews

Connoly is at his peak. While it looks like we will only see maybe one or two Harry Bosch novels before the LAPD makes him pull the plug, it seems Connoly is priming us for an entirely new series, this time about Lucia Soto, Bosch's new partner. Soto is a young, Hispanic female detective with no previous homicide investigation experience. Even though Soto is inexperienced, she learns quickly andthinks almost like Bosch, plus she has already been involved in two Officer Involved Shootings, so it is quite possible that she will pick up where Harry Bosch leaves off with his retirement.

Connelly has written one of his best Bosch novels in years. I was skeptical about another one taking place in the cold case dept. By nature, it couldn't have enough action. But I was wrong. It wasn't slow or dry and had just enough action. If Connelly pulled the pin on Bosch, I could see his protégé in this story carry the torch.

Connelly delivered a great read in this book. Bosh is again on top of his game. He helps break in a very young Detective in Lucky Lucy and I hope that are not seeing the end of Harry Bosh as a character in Connelly ' s books. (KEEP GOING HARRY BOSH THERE ARE MORE COLD CASES FOR YOU AND LUCY TO SOLVE !!!)

About the author

Michael Connelly is the author of twenty-eight previous novels, including #1 New York Times bestsellers The Crossing and The Burning Room.  His books, which include the Harry Bosch series and Lincoln Lawyer series, have sold more than sixty million copies worldwide.  Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels and is the executive producer of Bosch, starring Titus Welliver.  He spends his time in California and Florida.