The Burning Room

De: Michael Connelly

Narrado por: Titus Welliver

In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually nonexistent.

Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Starting with the bullet that's been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old information, which soon reveals that this shooting may have been anything but random.

Read by Titus Welliver, star of the Bosch TV series.

©2014 Hieronymous, Inc (P)2014 Hachette Audio

Another great thriller

Very entertaining and full of suspense. Connelly has an incredible way of writing thriller stories, and this book is another confirmation of it!

Connolly does it again!

I enjoyed this book from the moment I started to listen to it.
However, I am a great fan of Harry Bosch so this is not at all surprising.

The most memorable moment for me was right at the end when Harry leaves the squad room to applause led by Soto.

The narrator, who plays the part of Harry in the TV series Bosch,
was perfect.

Amazing as always

Welliver does an amazing job, as expected. Connelly is a master story teller. This has been one of my favourite Bosch stories.

Go Harry

Loved it. Looking forward to the next adventure. Harry is such an interesting character who develops through the series.

"Redemption."

Harry Bosch has a new partner, a young woman just made detective, and nicknamed 'Lucky' Lucy - perhaps, thinks Harry, some of that luck will run off on him. And perhaps it does.

Certainly lucky for the reader as, yet again, Michael Connelly has provided an excellent detective mystery book: a ten years old shooting is converted into a murder when the musician finally succumbs to the bullet in his spine and Harry, now working cold cases, looks into it with Lucy whilst she is also following enquires personal to her. As a seven years old girl, she'd been caught in a fire, later deemed to be arson, in which several children with her had died along with her teacher and another adult. The arsonist was never caught. Haunted by the memories, it was, she told Harry, the reason she'd gone into law enforcement, the need to try to find some sort of resolution.I

What to say about this book and the whole Bosch series that isn't already out there? Told in snappy sentences that offer much without being superfluous, there is a presence, an immediacy in what is happening. The characters are real, not print on a page (or spoken words) and the plots are beautifully crafted, each step followed, always visual, in the same way that Harry's travels take the reader with him around L.A. or wherever he might be. As always, it is a novel in which the rest of the world fades away, totally immersing the reader in this world. Not particularly fast paced but not a wasted moment.

Titus Welliver, who plays Bosch in the TV adaptation, narrates. And he is good.
This is the second time of reading for me, the first in print, and this audio experience was as enjoyable as the first time round.
Highly recommended.