Book Review: The Closers

Reviewed By: Woodstock - RAM

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Michael Connelly
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Police Procedural
Series: Harry Bosch # 11
Little, Brown & Co, 2005, 403 pages

For readers addicted to suspense fiction, one of the best reads is the classic "police procedural." Interviews with witnesses and survivors, phone traces, crime scene photographs, fingerprint analysis, DNA analysis, surveillance, stakeouts, astute use of press and publicity, and old fashioned brain power and painstaking analysis - all of the above can be found in the best of genre.

Add to the above mix a cop who sees himself as "speaking for the dead" and you have Michael Connelly's long running and deeply satisfying series featuring LA cop Harry Bosch.

Newly returned to the force after a retirement which left him at loose ends and wondering what to do, Bosch is assigned to a newly formed unit devoted to investigating cases still unsolved after a long lapse of time. He's partnered with his former colleague Kiz Rider, and still treading softly to avoid the animosity of former bosses in the LAPD. But as Bosch and Kiz investigate the death of a teenage woman some 17 years in the past, it's clear that the higher levels of the LAPD were involved in mistakes in the original investigation.

Fans of earlier books in the Bosch series will not be disappointed. Readers seeking a new character to follow and admire should pick this one up as soon as possible.

Woodstock - RAM

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