• The Drop

  • Harry Bosch, Book 15
  • By: Michael Connelly
  • Narrated by: Len Cariou
  • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (7,065 ratings)

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The Drop

By: Michael Connelly
Narrated by: Len Cariou
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Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.

DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer, or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court.

Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman Irvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont. Irving, Bosch's longtime nemesis, has demanded that Harry handle the investigation.

Relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department.

Impressed? Ace detective Harry Bosch is also on the case in other exciting Michael Connelly crime-fiction novels.
©2011 Michael Connelly (P)2011 Hachette Audio

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Connelly just gets better and better!

First Harry B book I ever listened to was this one, and now I'm going back and picking up the earlier ones. He has definitely gotten better with time. Nice when that happens.

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another great Bosch story

Michael Connelly does it again! I love all the Bosch novels, and this is no exception. And Len Cariou is my favorite narrator for this series. Very enjoyable all around.

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That depravity of man

this one makes me cry every time
There is always evil in the world and this describes to well

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I have listened to all the Harry Bosch books. I like this readers voice better, but very much dislike the music. It disturbs the flow.

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Connelly at his best

Would you listen to The Drop again? Why?

I am fascinated by Harry Bosch. Connelly makes Bosch believable and the story intriguing. I have a feeling that Maddie is going to follow in his footsteps, and she will become an even better detective than Harry.

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The book is better than the performance

THE DROP is one of the best Bosch novels - an intricate set of detection problems, with a minimum of improbabilities. I like Len Cariou less well than Titus Welliver, who of course plays Bosch brilliantly on TV. Cariou, an accomplished Broadway actor, who created the role of “the demon barber of Fleet Street,” hams it up a bit too much for my taste.

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Good plot.

Great story as usual from Connelly. Liked the narrator and the plot sequence. I highly recommend.

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Harry Bosch and Len Cariou

Harry Bosch is an unusual character with an unusual life. Yet one feels a close affinity with him because of his 'morality' and why he continues to work in his chosen profession as a dectective inspite of the setbacks and curveballs live has thrown him. Len Cariou brings Harry Bosch alive in a most special way. I enjoy his narration and hope he continues for Harry Harry Bosch inovels in the future.

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The Series hasn't lost its edge

Two good plots that Connelly did an excellent job of jogging back and forth between. He left us to ponder where the Irving character will be going in the next installment. The mark of a good author is playing with the readers' emotions by having us alternately rooting for and against his characters, some of them very evil. This book delivers.

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Poor narration

I love Harry Bosch and Michael Connelly, but I had trouble listening as the narrator had a horrible lisp in his narration voice. Before I got used to it, I was wishing I had read it on my Kindle.

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