Michael Connelly: City of Bones

By MICHELE HEWITSON

Harry (short for Hieronymus) Bosch, the cop with the best name in the business, is back in Connelly's latest cop fiction. The former Vietnam tunnel rat is a melancholy loner who is a magnet for trouble. He's been demoted from robbery-homicide and is on callout on New Year's day - a big day for suicides - when the story opens.

A retired doctor's dog brings home the femur of a boy from a shallow grave high in the Hollywood Hills. Bosch is haunted by a child with a life history as fractured as almost every bone in his body. Connelly is very good at this game, and this one's a smart, gripping jigsaw puzzle with an ending which will give Bosch fans their biggest shock yet.

Orion

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