Detective Harry Bosch comes out of retirement to work with his old partner in the Open-Unsolved unit of the LAPD, and naturally goes straight into trying to solve a 17 year old murder, with a new DNA match that the police computer just turned up.
Funny enough, the book follows the investigation, as the detectives comb over the old evidence, trying to make heads and tails out of the case, and meet all the players in the case for themselves.
It's a simple book, but that makes it refreshing after the Da Vinci book experience! You couldn't say this book was particularly well written, or had any overwhelming style or substance. Nor does it make any social statement.
What it is though, is a good plot (with the all important unexpected twist at the end), and the plot is the centre of the book, more important in a novel like this than the language, characters or themes. It's "general purpose" writing, if you like, where the function is to tell a story and other embellishment is not necessary.
Recommended for light reading - 4/7!
Funny enough, the book follows the investigation, as the detectives comb over the old evidence, trying to make heads and tails out of the case, and meet all the players in the case for themselves.
It's a simple book, but that makes it refreshing after the Da Vinci book experience! You couldn't say this book was particularly well written, or had any overwhelming style or substance. Nor does it make any social statement.
What it is though, is a good plot (with the all important unexpected twist at the end), and the plot is the centre of the book, more important in a novel like this than the language, characters or themes. It's "general purpose" writing, if you like, where the function is to tell a story and other embellishment is not necessary.
Recommended for light reading - 4/7!
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