The Burning Room by Michael Connelly7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() A sleazy former mayor with greedy aspirations gets involved. Political implications underlie every step. Higher-ups at LAPD are overanxious to strut the case publicly. Bosch is paired with inexperienced 28-year-old Lucy Soto, a Hispanic uniform cop promoted, perhaps prematurely, after her heroic standoff during a gang shootout. So the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit has assigned hardboiled veteran homicide detective Harry Bosch and his new rookie partner to untangle the perplexing crime.Īs usual, Connelly stirs the plot early on. The case was never closed and the victim has just died of complications from the wound a decade later. Ten years earlier, he had been the accidental victim of a suspected gang-related drive-by shooting in Los Angeles' Mariachi Plaza. ![]() In Michael Connelly's 19th Harry Bosch mystery, the only fresh evidence in the LAPD's warmest cold case is a mushroomed bullet removed during an autopsy from a mariachi band guitarist's spine. ![]()
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