Hardback: Can Harry Bosch find someone who might never have existed? Unstoppable detective Harry Bosch returns in a new thriller from New York Times best-selling author Michael Connelly.
Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He does not advertise, he does not have an office, and he is picky about who he works for, but it doesn't matter. His chops from thirty years with the LAPD speak for themselves.
Harry Bosch is working as a part-time detective in San Fernando, outside of Los Angeles, when he gets an invitation to meet with ageing aviation billionaire Whitney Vance. At eighteen, Vance had a relationship with a girl called Vibiana Duarte, but soon after becoming pregnant, she disappeared.
Now, as he reaches the end of his life, Vance wants to know what happened to Vibiana, and whether there is an heir to his vast fortune. Bosch is the only person he trusts to undertake the assignment.
"Call it justice or the need to know. Call it the need to believe that those who are evil will not remain hidden in darkness forever. Even if doing it doesn't exactly fit inside the rules, sometimes you have to rely on the voice inside that tells you what to do. There will be one thing that brings it all together and makes sense of things. Find it and you're gold."
Harry is aware that with the sums of money involved, this could be dangerous - not just for himself, but for the person he is hunting. But as he begins to uncover the secrets behind Vibiana's tragic story, and discovers uncanny links to his own past, he knows he cannot rest until he finds the truth.
Swift, unpredictable, and thrilling, The Wrong Side of Goodbye (2016) - the twenty-first and latest instalment in the exceptional and outstanding Harry Bosch series - proves once again that "Connelly is still very much in his prime" (Washington Post).
About the author: A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the author of twenty-eight novels including the Harry Bosch series and Lincoln Lawyer series, featuring Mickey Haller, as well as standalone bestsellers such as The Poet (1996). His books have been translated into thirty-one languages, won numerous awards and sold more than sixty million copies worldwide. Michael is executive producer of Amazon TV's Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. He lives with his family in Tampa, Florida.
Rating: 6/5
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