The Burning Room, by Michael Connelly

Al policeman Harry Bosch a case between the grotesque and the ridiculous is entrusted to him. At least that's how it seems to him from the start. That a guy dies from a bullet ten years after receiving it seems more like a later natural death, unrelated to a murderous bullet with a memory function.

But the death of the victim ends up being associated with a direct cause of the shooting that has manifested itself with that decade of difference, so it is necessary to investigate ex officio who may be the remote murderer.

Together with his partner, the detective Lucía Soto, little shower in homicide matters due to her newcomers in the matter, Harry begins to investigate a case as strange as it is complicated.

But the truth is that stray bullets don't exist. They always end up staying in the bodies they are targeting, whims of weapons. And Harry begins to sense that willingness to kill the victim, and considers the reasons why this victim did not end up participating in the police in the matter at the time.

At that moment the click of the good researcher awakens in Harry Bosch and in the reader, who until now surely shared a certain sense of comic surprise. And indeed, there is more, much more than a casual death, from whose trace the shot of ten years ago seems to have been removed as a mere accident without relevance.

At book The burning room we are presented with one of the most particular, extravagant, and at the same time fascinating cases in the history of the detective novel. What you start off reading as an almost humorous story about a vicious cop who seems to make fun of the world. it ends up darkening towards a magnetic secret, the one that will end up giving a full explanation to the case of the dead man ten years after he was shot.

Once you enter flour with the reading of this novel, two questions assail you page by page. Who shot the victim? And why did the victim never say anything about what happened? Only a secret of colossal dimensions could have hidden everything. And the victim was as interested or more than anyone in that oblivion ...

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