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City of Bones
Author: Michael Connelly

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Publisher: Little, Brown
Book Type: Hardcover
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ISBN-13: 9780316154055 - ISBN-10: 0316154059
Publication Date: 4/2002
Pages: 464


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback, Audio Cassette (Abridged), Audio CD (Abridged), Audio Cassette (Unabridged)

Book Description:
When the bones of a 12-year-old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up the darkest memories from his own haunted past. The bones have been buried for years, but the cold case doesn't deter Bosch. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child's identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined that he not be forgotten.

At the same time, a new love affair with a female cop begins to blossom for Bosch-until a stunningly blown mission leaves Bosch in more trouble that ever before in his turbulent career. The investigation races to a shocking conclusion and leaves Bosch on the brink of an unimaginable decision-one that will leave readers hungrily awaiting Michael Connelly's next masterpiece.


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Top Member Book Reviews

Ellen L. (LdyLopes) wrote on 4/16/2007...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

On a New Year's Day, Detective Harry Bosch fields a call that a dog found a bone.....a bone that the dog's owner,a doctor, feels certain is a human bone.

Bosch investigates,and that chance discovery leads him to a shallow grave in the Hollywood hills,evidence of a murder committed more than twenty years earlier.It's a cold case,but it stirs up Bosch's memories of his own childhood as an orphan in the city.He can't let it go.Digging through police reports and hospital records, tracking down street kids and runaways from the 1970's,Bosch finds a family ripped apart by an absence.....and a trail,ever more tenuous,into a violent,terrifying world.
As the case takes Bosch deeper into the past,a rookie cop named Julia Brasher brings him alive in the present in a way no one has in years. Bosch has been warned about the trouble that comes with dating a rookie, but no warning could withstand the heat between them....or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes a hard turn. A suspect bolts, acop is shot, and suddenly Bosch's cold case has all of L.A. in an uproar....and Bosch's fighting to keep control in a lawless and brutal showdown.
Drawing on the "precision-tooled twists" and "wellspring of authentically lurid detail"( Los Angeles) that have made him one of the fastest-selling novelists at work today,Michael Connelly has written a riveting,hard-edged,and unforgettable thriller.

Chris H. wrote on 9/13/2006...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

I could not put this book down. Stayed up 'til midnight two nights in a row and had to finish it to find out "who done it". Excellent book by a great author.

Jill W. (Beaner) wrote on 8/16/2005...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

I read this book in two days, couldn't put it down. An excellent read, reminds me of the TV show CSI.


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Rich M. (4x4) wrote on 11/15/2009...


excellent read right to the end.

Barbara S. (MsBarb) wrote on 3/13/2007...


Great read!

Rhonda S. (rhonda) wrote on 2/9/2006...


ONE OF CONNELLY'S BEST BOSCH BOOKS.A RIVETING, HARD EDGE THRILLER.

Aimee C. wrote on 1/14/2006...


A good read, plain and simple.

Karen K. (k5karen) wrote on 8/17/2005...


on new uyears day,det. harry bosch fields a call that a dog has found a bone ,a bone that the dogs owner is certain is human.

Vikki C. (Vikki) wrote on 6/19/2005...


As always another great book about H. Bosch.


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