- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Orion; 1st Edition.1st Printing edition (8 April 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752821407
- ISBN-13: 978-0752821405
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 96,851 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Michael Connelly's world-weary cop Harry Bosch gets another outing in City of Bones, torn apart by having to investigate the long-ago killing of a much abused boy and by his doomed affair with a much younger woman cop. This is not the best or the most ingenious, but is the gloomiest and perhaps most thoughful, of Connelly's thrillers about Bosch, thrillers which take the assumptions of the police procedural and makes them part of the creation of a mood in which to investigate is to struggle with the tragic forces in life. Connelly is especially good on the more positive aspects of canteen culture, that real desire to protect the innocent and serve society that Bosch calls "the blue religion"; when, as here, a paedophile witness is outed to the press or a suspect shot in dubious circumstances, it is not just good standards of policework, but something more important that is being betrayed. If City of Bonesturns out to be the last of Connelly's books about Bosch, or the last in which he is controlled and constrained in his mission of justice by his role as a police officer, it will not be a dying fall to one of the more impressive thriller series of our time. --Roz Kaveney
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Give a dog a bone and a whole can of worms opens up. This is the start of the 7th great Detective Harry Bosch novel, set in LA but far from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. When a dog returns to its master with a humerus in its mouth it opens up a horrific case of child abuse from twenty years previously. For the next two weeks Bosch and his partner try to bring closure and after identifying the skeleton the answer seems simple. Too simple... Digging back into the neighbourhood's past unearths secrets that could and do destroy lives and careers, bringing back memories for Bosch that he would rather forget. Award-winning crime writer Michael Connelly carries the plot back and forth, intertwining it with Bosch's bolshiness in the face of authority. Love interest arises only to confound both the case and Bosch with the complexity of its relationship. A page-turning, fast-moving pacy crime story - forget about doing anything else till the last page is turned and Bosch reaches a crossroads in his life. - Lucy Watson
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49 of 50 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Harry Bosch is back,
By A Customer
This review is from: City Of Bones (Hardcover)
Still recovering from the events of "A Darkness More than Night", LA detective Harry Bosch is confronted with a nightmare. The partial skeleton of a child is discovered on a hillside. A forensic anthropologist is called in and his examination of the remains reveals a harrowing tale of prolonged abuse. Harry swears he will catch the culprit, and once again enters the darkest recesses of human cruelty.Based on a real murder (in which the perpetrator was successfully prosecuted, thank God!) this is yet another brilliant work from Connelly. Bosch is a wonderfully crafted protagonist, and as usual the writing is first rate. The description of injuries given by the anthropologist is disturbing reading, all the more so considering that it is based in fact, yet the subject is treated sensitively and in no way appears voyeuristic. The rest of the story (I won't give it away!) flows beatifully. Connelly is a fine author and this book would grace any crime fan's collection. Thoroughly recommended.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Melancholic, yet gripping,
By A Customer
This review is from: City Of Bones (Paperback)
I'd recently been introduced to Harry Bosch, the LA detective featured, by my father. This was only the second novel, with him as lead, that I'd read. It's well plotted, with several wrong turns, and "you think you know who done it and you're wrong" twists....and you really care for this flawed character, who suffers a loss midway, and suffers for his compulsion at the end. It's not a perfectly happy ending, nor should it be, yet it's uplifting enough that he kinda catches who did it, and why, against the odds. But only after he's paid a meaningufl price for what he's learnt. Characters, even the incidental ones are carefully drawn, and the dialogue is compelling, and not cliched. Well worth a few pounds, and a few hours of your time.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Haunting.,
By Dave Lunn (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: City Of Bones (Paperback)
It's not the most violent,action packed harry Bosch story but it's interesting and the more the case unravels, the more you feel sorry for our hero. The bones found belong to a 12 year old boy that's been missing some 25 years. The more Bosch finds out the more 'haunting' the case becomes. There's a couple of stereotypical sub plots(conflict with bosses, troubled romance) but these just keep the story ticking along. I enjoyed it and it was a little different in it's approach.
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