The Closers by Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch has returned to work as a detective in the LAPD after three years of retirement. He’s teamed up with his former partner, Kiz Rider, in the new Open-Unsolved unit. Their first cold case is the seventeen-year-old murder of a high school girl who was taken from her home and murdered in the mountains behind her home. DNA from the gun has been matched to a petty hoodlum who was no rocket scientist by any stretch of the imagination. They set a plan to trap the guy only to see it all go wrong. And something about a picture in the murder book keeps troubling Bosch.

Bosch’s corrupt old boss does what he can to get rid of Bosch and close this case as he did once before…with everything just swept under the carpet. Hasn’t the LAPD corruption been cleaned up? Will there be a suicide-by-police? What becomes of the murdered girl’s family?  All in all, the story moves along pretty well and you’re kept guessing through most of the book about whodunit.

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