Michael Connelly’s 19th Harry Bosch novel is a clever, classy page-turner
Harry Bosch is dismayed when a comment of his, “Everybody counts or nobody counts”, is seized upon by an upwardly mobile politician. “I like that! … That’s good,” Armando Zeyas, a former Los Angeles mayor with his eye on the governorship, tells Bosch, as the detective reluctantly prepares to brief the press about the developments in a murder investigation. “Bosch couldn’t hide his look of horror,” Michael Connelly drily narrates. “In Zeyas’s mouth it sounded like a campaign slogan.”
It might enrage Bosch when the remark is, inevitably, drafted into political use, but the thought behind it sums up both Connelly’s veteran detective and his creator. Everybody counts. Nobody and nothing is overlooked in the pursuit for truth. “The good ones all had that hollow space inside,” Bosch muses. “The empty place where the fire always burns. For something. Call it justice. Call it the need to know. Call it the need to believe that those who are evil will not remain hidden in darkness for ever.”
Appearing in his 19th novel, with retirement looming, 64-year-old Bosch is working for the LAPD’s open-unsolved unit these days, and dealing with cold cases. There are plenty to go round: “more than 10,000 unsolved murders on the books in the past 50 years”.
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It might enrage Bosch when the remark is, inevitably, drafted into political use, but the thought behind it sums up both Connelly’s veteran detective and his creator. Everybody counts. Nobody and nothing is overlooked in the pursuit for truth. “The good ones all had that hollow space inside,” Bosch muses. “The empty place where the fire always burns. For something. Call it justice. Call it the need to know. Call it the need to believe that those who are evil will not remain hidden in darkness for ever.”
Appearing in his 19th novel, with retirement looming, 64-year-old Bosch is working for the LAPD’s open-unsolved unit these days, and dealing with cold cases. There are plenty to go round: “more than 10,000 unsolved murders on the books in the past 50 years”.
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