Book Review
City of Bones

CITY OF BONES by Michael Connelly – Bosch Starts the New Year With A Heartbreaking Case

In this book of Harry Bosch (Book 8) Bosch starts out the new year with a new case. When a dog on a sleepy cul-de-sac goes off for a run and comes back with a bone Bosch is thrust into a a case that no one has known about for 20 years.

With this visit into the Bosch universe Hieronymus Bosch meets rookie Julia Brasher and it looks like a relationship is just getting started.

While Bosch tries to find out who the victim is he is testing further a relationship with rookie Patrolman Brasher. This budding relationship leads to some expected ribbing about being involved with a female so far below him in rank.

Bosch and Jay Edgar turn over various stones trying to figure out who killed, speaking with a forensic anthropologist to find the tale of the bones tells a sad and horrifying story of prolonged abuse at the hands of someone larger than the young boy.

With the plot twists that are expected of Michael Connelly’s books this one is right on par. The plot was amazing the who done it was unexpected and the action jumped off the page. Yes, as with the previous books in the series, plot lines are part of the streaming series, sometimes with minor changed and other times with major changes.

Recommend?

Recommend this one to all Bosch readers. As with all of the Bosch books, it is better read as part of the series but you can read it as a standalone.

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Disclaimer
I received via the OverDrive/Libby app from the Harris County Library system. It was read as a Kindle Book.