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The Closers

by Michael Connelly

A cold case reopened

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    #1 New York Times bestseller

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A cold case reopened

After leaving police work, Harry Bosch returns to investigate cases that stalled or were mishandled, joining Los Angeles’s Open/Unsolved Unit. His assignment begins with the killing of a teenage girl on Oat Mountain; DNA from the murder weapon points to a small-time criminal, but the case extends beyond that lead. The investigation brings together forensic evidence, unresolved questions, and pressure from colleagues who doubt Bosch’s return. The setup places a single murder inside the broader work of revisiting abandoned investigations, with Bosch testing the limits of the rules as he tries to assemble a fuller account of what happened.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy hard-boiled detective fiction centered on police investigations.
  • Those interested in cold cases, forensic clues, and the reopening of flawed or abandoned investigations.
  • Readers seeking a Harry Bosch mystery set within a specialized Los Angeles police unit.

Themes

Cold cases and investigative failuresForensic evidenceInstitutional skepticismThe pursuit of truth

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Book overview

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch joins LA's elite Open/Unsolved Unit to help piece together the mysterious death of a teenage girl.
He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly rooting for his failure, Harry catches the case of a teenager dragged off to her death on Oat Mountain, and traces the DNA on the murder weapon to a small-time criminal. But something bigger and darker beckons, and Harry must battle to fit all the pieces together. Shaking cages and rattling ghosts, he will push the rules to the limit -- and expose the kind of truth that shatters lives, ends careers, and keeps the dead whispering in the night . . .
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