Harry Bosch #9. I think this is my favorite detective/mystery/murder series right now. I think I could just keep reading them one after the other. That is usually not the case with me. It's not like I can identify with Harry or anything, because I really don't. The writing is excellent, however, and the stories have twists and turns I don't expect. For one thing, Harry is no longer a police officer. He resigned at the end of Book #7. He did get his PI certification, but in this book he doesn't present himself that way. He just presents himself as a "former police officer" who was on the job for 25 years.
After a several-month break, Harry decides he needs to solve the murder of Angella Benton, after a call from a former cop (Cross). Harry was initially put on the case (four years previously) but was abruptly taken off when her death seemed connected to an armed robbery. So, the case was given to the Robbery Homicide Division. There were two cops (Cross and Dorsey) assigned to the case from RHD, but during their investigation they were both shot in a bar one night. Dorsey died and Cross was paralyzed. These cases are always complex, which is what makes them so intriguing. There is an additional piece of this puzzle. The female cop (Marty Gessler), who noticed a discrepancy in the number of the stolen bills from the armed robbery, had called Dorsey to notify him, and then suddenly disappeared. This happened about a half year after the bank robbery. (So over three years ago.) Anyway, after Cross & Dorsey were shot, no one really actively followed up on who killed Angella Benton or figured out what happened to Marty Gessler. Enter Harry. As usual, he is bound and determined to figure it all out - no matter how much trouble he causes in the process.
So here is what I don't get! I don't understand why Harry is so obsessed with Eleanor Wish! Even though they are divorced, he wants to be with her. She is so secretive and she definitely seems to have moved on from Harry. This is something else I don't really understand. I don't think it was explained very well. One day they are married. Then a year later she is gone. She gambles for a living. She seems like a gambling addict to me. Now she is bankrolled by other people to gamble for their profit, and hers of course. Harry just can't let her go. So he goes to her two-three times in this book alone. I really don't understand their relationship, even though some clarity (and I mean that in an obscure kind of way) presents itself in the end of the book.
Wendy's Rating: ****
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