From our Library: The Closers
There are some writers whose name on a cover immediately draws me to their latest book, or maybe just one that I hadn't yet read. Michael Connolly is one of these. And with The Closers he's at his crime-writing best.
I've equally had a gra for Connolly's regular character, Detective Harry Bosch of the LAPD. He's a human guy, who has had more than his share of ups and downs, and even though he really is a good detective, he still makes quite a few mistakes. In The Closers he has rejoined the police force after having resigned some years previously following major difficulties with its management. He is teamed up with his old colleague Kiz Rider specifically to revisit old unsolved cases.
Their first case is a politically sensitive one, involving a DNA match that connects a white supremacist type to a murder ten years before of a teenager of mixed race. The complications involve a couple of Harry Bosch's old sparring partners as well as the ramifications of the case itself.
Connolly deftly weaves us into a labyrinth where many clues have been lost, in time or in the dusty recesses of the LAPD evidence archive. It is another compelling yarn, and while I'm pretty good at coming to the correct conclusion early in my reads of such books, I didn't get it right this time.
A writer who can surprise is always a good one. BB
