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A review by saareman
The Burning Room by Michael Connelly
4.0
Solid police procedural with my old fave Harry Bosch with a new partner Lucy (Lucky) Soto on the cold-case files. Harry has a year to go on his DROP pension extension and is looking to make every case count and finds in Soto a worthy partner to mentor as part of his legacy. This mostly excluded the police department politics and back-stabbing stuff which I'm not a fan of anyway. Bosch & Soto tackle two cold-case files, one a delayed murder where the victim has now died 10 years after a shooting, the other a 20-year old arson case which has a personal connection for Soto. It all wraps up too quickly and leaves us worrying for Bosch down the road.
The book includes a good plug for the doc film "Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story" about the jazz saxophonist, which author Connelly executive produced, with Bosch listening to downloaded tunes from the soundtrack (which I don't think exists yet actually - Harry Bosch an illegal downloader!?)
The book includes a good plug for the doc film "Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story" about the jazz saxophonist, which author Connelly executive produced, with Bosch listening to downloaded tunes from the soundtrack (which I don't think exists yet actually - Harry Bosch an illegal downloader!?)