Michael Connelly – The Closers

TYPE:    Thriller, Mystery

RATING:    7/10

REVIEW:

The Closers is a well rounded murder mystery. I must have missed Harry Bosch’s description in the earlier books as this just the second book of Connelly that I have laid hands on.

The Closers are a group of people on the fifth floor of the LAPD who work on open-unsolved cases. This usually means that they have to sift through the evidence they have,part by part, because there is only a slight chance, if any, of getting fresh evidence pertaining to cases that may be as old as two decades back.

Harry Bosch has returned to the LAPD after a retirement, and is immediately assigned to this department with his earlier partner Kizmin Rider and together they try to solve the first ‘book’ that they are assigned. This one has a 16-year-old killed by a guy who has conspiracy all about him.

The investigation keeps delving deeper and the conspiracy keeps getting thicker and Bosch finds himself knee deep in a plot he must unravel without risking the reputations of a lot of people.

The book is a slow read at times, however, and makes you want to skip a few pages on the go, which I did.

Good read nonetheless, and look forward to more from this author.

DESCRIPTION:

After three years out of the LAPD Harry Bosch returns to find the department a very different place from the one he left, with a new police chief brought in from New York.

Working with his former cop partner Kiz Rider, Harry is assigned to the Open – Unsolved Unit. These detectives are the Closers, working on the thousands of cold cases that haunt the LAPD’s files – they put a shovel in the dirt and turn over the past. Harry and Kiz are immediately thrown into a politically sensitive and dangerous case when a DNA match connects a white supremacist to the 1988 murder of a mixed-race 16-year-old girl. But as they navigate the case, someone is watching, waiting, and hoping Harry will make a mistake …

‘Excellent … Michael Connelly is always a reliable and The Closers is as dark and thrilling as ever.’ Daily Mail

‘All the excitements of a terrific thriller well paced by a cool and fast-running narrative.’ Literary Review