Harry Bosch #11
The Closers
Michael Connelly
Harry is back on the job and working on cold cases with his old partner. Examining Cold Cases often reveals shoddy police work or officers who take the easy pathway.
This outing is a police procedural that reminds me of Dragnet without the crime solved in half an hour. Virtually nothing of a personal nature enters the story.
Unlike Harry's other cases this one doesn't emphasize psychological profiling and motivation but instead concentrates on the nitty gritty of record keeping and paperwork involved in police work. The kind of paperwork that sees offenders walking free before the arresting cop has finished the paperwork involved. In particular he talks about the murderbook that records chronology and all the minutia of the investigation. In this case after 17 years the box containing the physical evidence had been accidentally or deliberately lost.
There is the innuendo that Deputy Chief Irving is somehow implicated in covering up police corruption here. The case was conducted by the book but the actual perpetrator was never identified though possibly buried in all the details.
No comments:
Post a Comment