The Drop is the
seventeenth title in Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch series and, I’m embarrassed
to admit, the first one that I’ve read. Despite jumping in so deep into the
series, I was happy to find out that The
Drop was easy to follow and not bogged down by back stories from previous
installments.
The Drop finds
Bosch, a detective for the Los Angeles Police Department, investigating the
death of the son of a prominent city councilman and working on a reopened 1989 rape
and murder case. The strange thing about the rape and murder case is that the
DNA found on the body was from an eight year old. Could an eight year old have
actually done something like this? Was a major mistake made at the crime lab?
Twists and turns abound in this case. It also thoughtfully explores why some
victims of crime grow up to be criminals themselves.
The case involving the councilman’s son isn’t quite as
engaging, but this has more to do with all the layers and the shocking ending
of the rape and murder case than Connelly doing a poor job exploring what
happened to the councilman’s son. I’m not sure if I’m going to go back and read
all the books in the Harry Bosch series, but considering the way The Drop pulled me in I’m sure this
won’t be the last Michael Connelly novel I read.
John
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