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Harry Bosch: Book 17

The Drop (2011) (edit title/settings)

by Michael Connelly (Author) (edit contributors)

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Harry Bosch is nearing retirement and wants as many cases as he can get before retiring. He's given two cases, a suicide investigation that has political ties, and a questionable DNA evidence case.

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Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.

DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.

DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court.

Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman Irvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont. Irving, Bosch's longtime nemesis, has demanded that Harry handle the investigation.

Relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department.

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Christmas came once a month in the Open-Unsolved Unit.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapters 1-42

Glossary edit see section history

  • DROP: Deferred Retirement Option Plan

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This is book 17 of 20 in Harry Bosch. (standard series)

Preceded by The Reversal, and followed by The Black Box.

This book is in 2011 Published Books. (community list)
This is book 6 of 10 in Amazon.com Best Books of December (2011). (authoritative list)
This is book 7 of 14 in New York Times Bestsellers - Hardcover Fiction (Current). (authoritative list)
This is book 6 of 17 in New York Times Bestsellers - Paperback Mass-Market Fiction (Current). (authoritative list)

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  1. Michael Connelly (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Country: USA
Publication Date: November 29, 2011
ISBN: 978-0316069410
Page Count: 388

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  • Library of Congress: PS3553.O51165D76 2011
  • Dewey: 813'54-dc22

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