At the same time, a female rookie named Julia Brasher joins the department.

After 20 years time, a lot of the details once remembered about the disappearance of the boy are blurred and leads Bosch fumbling in the dark. In order to try to solve the crime, Bosch has to chase down possible witnesses and suspects from near and far.

To solve the murder, Bosch has to dig through records of cases involving disappearances and runaways dating far back in time. The body turns out to have been a 12-year-old boy that has been buried 20 years earlier. The only clue that he has to go on is the skateboard found during a search at a suspect's house. Bosch can't let go of the case, a case that brings back memories from his own childhood, and starts an investigation. Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch takes on the case together with his colleague Jerry Edgar and after investigating the matter further, a shallow grave containing the bones of a child, is discovered. The dog's owner, a doctor, recognizes the bone as human and calls it in to the police. On New Year's Day, a dog digs up a bone in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. Published in 2002, it was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. night to the last place he ever wanted to go - the darkness of his own heart.City of Bones is the twelfth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the eighth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus 'Harry' Bosch. It’s a blood-tracked quest that will take Harry from the hard edges of the L.A. Now, for the second time, Harry must hunt down a death-dealer who is very much alive, before he strikes again. Now, the dead man’s widow is suing Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong man - an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker’s macabre signature. With a single faultless shot, Detective Harry Bosch thought he had ended the city’s nightmare. The serial killer who stalked Los Angeles and left a grisly calling card on the faces of his female victims. Synopsis (From They called him the Dollmaker… Wednesday 22nd July : Prologue and Chapter 1 - 5 This is the group for the book discussion by the Mystery and Suspense Group of The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly, which is Book 3 in the Harry Bosch Universe SeriesĪll are welcome to join in the discussion, but please ensure that you do not leave any spoilers if you finish the book before Monday 27th July when others will be reading the final section. If you want to revive this group, or create a new group on the same topic, see this page.

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