Michael Connelly: THE NIGHT FIRE
Harry Bosch is now an ex-detective, pushing 70 and nursing a new knee. But you can’t keep a good man down, and Harry is helping his half-brother Micky Haller, the ‘Lincoln Lawyer’, unravel a wrongful-conviction case. He also assists RenĂ©e Ballard, of the LAPD night watch, on what seems to be a random crime, the burning to death of a homeless man in his tent under the freeway. And the widow of an old friend gives him a file that reopens an old 'cold' case. Of course, these three investigations will crisscross and eventually intersect. Not for the first time, Bosch and Ballard find themselves looking down a gun barrel.
Michael Connelly’s cops solve crimes by stakeouts
and wiretaps and dogged persistence. Every now and then this author produces an
outstanding thriller – The Narrows and Echo Park are two of his
greatest: chase them up if you’ve missed them. The Night Fire is not
outstanding, but it‘s very, very good.