If there is a hero of the crime novel who stands out for that particular sympathy of the eccentric, that is the Harry Bosch of Michael connelly. Because we find ourselves before an old detective with the great baggage of his twenty novels behind him. And if a protagonist is able to survive such overexposure, it is because it is really magnetic.
Perhaps in this novel a kind of relief will already materialize. Because the detective Renée Ballard is no longer a coincidence after appearing capitalizing on her previous novel Night session. And it is that this police points out ways in a Hollywood full of real contrasts, from which to always get the black juice of all kinds of gruesome stories.
The iconic encounter between Bosch and Ballard comes with the uncomfortable violence of an after-hours visit by Harry to the Hollywood police station. Naturally he doesn't paint anything there. He may not even be known to everyone at his former San Fernando police station.
So good old Harry is about to get shot. But finally things are getting back together as best they can until expulsion without major reprisals.
But I think Harry knew very well what to do when he left the old file of the murder of Daisy Clayton on the table. Old cases always haunt the police when they are left unfinished.
Ballard reviews that documentation in this regard and, how could it be otherwise, is interested in the extremes of such an abominable affair surrounding the death of a girl of only fifteen years old.
Shortly after his unexpected visit to the police station, Harry will discover that his bait has had its intended effect. Together with Ballar, taking advantage of his youth, his mettle and his instinct, they will look for new evidence that can close this matter once and for all.
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