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Publisher: Warner Books
Written By: Michael Connelly
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780446699532
Feature: ISBN13: 9780446699532
ISBN: 0446699535
Label: Warner Books
Manufacturer: Warner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 408
Publication Date: 2006-10-02
Publisher: Warner Books
Studio: Warner Books
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ISBN13: 9780446699532
Condition: New
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Since his first appearance in 1992's Edgar-winning The Black Echo, 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 City of Bones, 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. --Benjamin Reese
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Reader Reviews for City of Bones (Harry Bosch):
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Summary: HARRY BOSCH NUMBER EIGHT
Comment: CITY OF BONES by Michael Connelly is the eighth book in the Harry Bosch series. Harry works for LAPD and is one hell of a detective. Read the books in order for a far better set of stories. Harry Bosch is a detectives detective with enough years in to walk away if he chooses. This story is about a child's murder, twenty years ago, a cols case. It is a well done story and Harry has a rookie cop as a love interest. I really enjoyed this one, hope you do. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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Summary: Another solid Connelly novel
Comment: Michael Connelly is easily one of the best and most consistent crime fiction authors working today. I've read almost all of Connelly's novels, but for whatever reason there are still a couple of middle Bosch novels that I have yet to read. City of Bones was (until recently) one of those novels.
I'm please to report that it's another solid effort from Connelly. It isn't a high water mark for the author (like Angels Flight, Concrete Blonde, Lincoln Lawyer, or The Poet) but it's still one of his better novels. It has many of the characteristics that I appreciate in a Bosch novel. Connelly has good insight into the politics of the LAPD and his novels always feel procedurally accurate and the language of the cops always rings true.
A lot of reviewers seem disappointed with the resolution of this case but I actually liked it. As someone who reads a fair amount of crime fiction, I was expecting a bigger twist at the end and the person who I thought would turn out to be the killer would have made for a typical, but implausible ending, so in a strange way I was pleased that I was wrong, and that the identity of the killer actually resulted in a much more realistic explanation. Some reviewers seem to regard this solution as a little anti-climactic but I liked that I was genuinely surprised by the outcome, and its unusual mundaneness.
Given the short time frame of the novel I did think that Harry seemed relatively unaffected by the sudden death of a character he was close to and he seemed to recover from his fractured ribs awfully quickly, but these are minor complaints.
I finished this novel very quickly, found it highly entertaining to read, and think that it measures up to some of the better novels in the series.
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Summary: A sad tale
Comment: An interesting Harry story but it only appears to be available in an abridge edition. I prefer unabridged editions.
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Summary: The last few pages are really unexpected!!
Comment: A few months ago I started reading Connelly's work in chronological order and I'm very glad I did it that way. City of Bones has Harry Bosch, an LAPD homicide detective, working a very cold case. A dog discovered some human bones in the woods. They are determined to be the bones of a 10-12 year old boy who had been severely abused throughout his life. Bosch sets out to determine the identity of the boy with the help of a new romantic interest. There are several deaths as a result of the investigation...two of which I'm not sure I fully understood...Connelly hints at what happened but never confirms the motives and series of events for sure. The ending is a total shockers...you will never see it coming!
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Summary: Connelly Keeps Blowing Me Away
Comment: After reading a few of Connelly's more recent books, I decided to go back and read them in order. I'm really glad I chose to do this, especially with the Harry Bosch novels. There is a great flow to the Bosch novels that I have not encountered in too many other detective series. And I keep thinking I've read the best Connelly novel until I read the next one of course.
Which is what brings me to "City of Bones." I can't figure out why none of the Bosch novels have made it to film. Maybe it's all for the better considering the one Connelly novel that was translated to the big screen was the dreadful "Blood Work." But "City of Bones" just screams to be a movie. And I think if you are going to pick a random Bosch novel to see if Connelly works for you, then "City of Bones" would be a great pick.
It's got a wonderful stand a lone story, and as if Connelly hasn't raised the stakes high enough for Bosch in the past, he raises them even higher in this novel. This story has everything a mystery lover should need including the lone rebellious hero and a couple of great twists at the end to make you want to delve right in to the next novel in the series. It's too bad I had already read "The Narrows," so the final revelation in this book didn't suprise me too much, but that's my own fault. Great stuff. Can't wait to read "Lost Light."
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