Hardback: A bullet has taken ten years to find its mark. Now Harry Bosch needs to find a killer before it's too late.
The Burning Room (2014) is the nineteenth book in the stupendous Detective Harry Bosch series set in Los Angeles.
In the Los Angeles Police Department's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime.
So when Orlando Merced finally succumbs to complications from being shot ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually nonexistent.
Partnered with Lucia Soto, a rookie detective who made her name in a violent liquor store shoot-out, Bosch begins to see political dimensions to the case - a case where, despite the seemingly impossible odds, failure to find the killer is simply not an option.
Not only does Soto soon reveal a burning obsession that could make her a loose cannon, the one piece of evidence they have on the Merced shooting also points in a shocking and unexpected direction that could unsettle the very people who want Bosch to close out the case.
It's looking like Orlando Merced may not be the investigation's only victim.
That includes Bosch himself.
About the author: Michael Connelly, a former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, is the author of more than a dozen acclaimed Harry Bosch thrillers and several courtroom dramas featuring Mickey Haller (the Lincoln Lawyer series), as well as standalone bestsellers such as The Poet (1996).
Michael Connelly is a former President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into thirty-one languages and have won numerous awards and have sold more than fifty-eight million copies worldwide.
He is the executive producer of the forthcoming series Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. All ten episodes of the series will begin streaming on 13 February 2015 on Amazon Prime Instant Video in the USA and the UK.
He spends his time in Florida and California.
Rating: 6/5
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