Resumo de The Closers - Michael Connelly

Working with his formerpartner, Kiz Rider, Harry is assigned to the department's Open-Unsolved Unit,working on the thousands of cold cases that haunt the LAPD's files. Thesedetectives are the Closers?they put a shovel in the dirt and turn over thepast. Becky was of mixed race, and the case appears to have a racial angle. The Closers is in stores now in paperback in theUSA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Listen to an audio clip from the Time Warner AudioBooksrelease of The Closers, read by Len Cariou. The death appeared at firstto be a suicide - but some of the evidence contradicted that scenario, anddetectives came to believe this was in fact a murder. Now Detective Harry Bosch is back with the LAPD with the sole mission ofclosing unsolved cases, and this girl's death is the first he's given. And it's not just the girl's family and friends whose lives Bosch is stirringup afresh. Even as he pushes relentlessly to find the truth, Bosch has towonder if this assignment was intended to be his last. From the mind of the man GQ has called "the best mystery writer inthe world," The Closers is a masterpiece of thriller writing thatis as sharp and immediate as the greatest fiction. The return of Harry Bosch is good for his beloved City of the Angels and greatfor readers. And bad, really bad, for the bad guys. Give Connelly credit forhaving the courage to tinker with one of the richest characters in the genre. Butthe blood indicates only that Mackey had possession of the gun, so how to pinhim to the crime? Connelly meticulously leads the reader along with Bosch andRider as they explore the links to Mackey and along the way connect the initialinvestigation of the crime to a police conspiracy. Most striking of all, indevelopments that give this novel astonishing moral force, the pair explore the"ripples" of the long ago crime, how it has destroyed the younggirl's family?leaving the mother trapped in the past and plunging the fatherinto a nightmare of homelessness and drink?and how it drives Rider, andespecially Bosch, into deeper understanding of their own purposes in life. Understandablyrusty after three years sans shield, Bosch makes his share of personal andprofessional mistakes here--including one that supplies The Closers witha lethal, plot-turning climax. But the greater problem is that Connellyexhausts so much time and effort following his protagonist through the tediumof modern police procedures, that he neglects what readers have liked moreabout this series in the past: its persistently deft exploration of Bosch'slonely, haunted soul (which remains mostly out of sight in this tale), and theauthor's frequent flights of lyrical prose (also not much in evidence). Would-benovelists wanting an example of a solidly constructed cop tale need look no furtherthan The Closers.

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