City of Bones
Audiobook
City of Bones
Childhood cases leave one with the knowledge that the world is full of lost light
Detective Harry Bosch is called to the discovery of a human bone that turns out to be the shocking case of a brutally abused boy who was murdered and buried in the woods of the Hollywood Hills more than twenty years ago. The notorious Laurel Canyon was then a rural enclave, part bohemian and part snobby, where it was easy to run into cocaine dealers and their customers, pornography traffickers, and extinct rock stars. The cordial investigator gradually uncovers the circumstances of an ancient crime and the tragic story of a boy whom fate did not favour in any way. However, such cases suck one dry and haunt one's dreams, especially when one has not had a happy childhood. Perhaps because of this, he does not resist the feelings that the sympathetic policewoman Julia awakens in him after a chance encounter. Little does he know that he will have to face a whirlwind of events that will seriously threaten his successful career...
The gripping eighth installment in the series of thrillers featuring the unconventional detective Bosch, on which the series of the same name was based. In this Edgar Award-nominated best novel, Harry's investigation leads to a conclusion so shocking and unexpected that the listener gasps involuntarily.
They wrote about the book:
A brutally realistic crime drama at its most gripping.
- Booklist
City of Bones is a clean, dense, dynamic thriller set in the moral morass of fictional Los Angeles. And it's a compelling read that can't be put down...
- The New York Times
Another exciting story for the growing legions of Connelly fans.
- Library Journal
Michael Connelly
(* 1956) American writer worked for many years as a journalist (among others. Los Angeles Times) and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his articles on police practices and crime. In the early 1990s, he published the novel Black Echo (1992), in which he created Harry Bosch, a peculiar detective with a deep disrespect for authority and a self-defeating sense of justice. He won the Edgar Award for this first novel, in which he elaborated his journalistic experience and continued the tradition of the American hard school. He is the author of 33 books, which have been translated into 39 languages and some of them have been successfully made into films - Clint Eastwood directed the novel Blood Trail (2002), and Matthew McConaughey played the lead role in the 2011 film adaptation of The Advocate. The Bosch series starring Tito Welliver as a detective named after the Dutch painter is now in its sixth season.
