Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.
DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab’s DNA cases currently in court.
Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman Irvin Irving’s son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont. Irving, Bosch’s longtime nemesis, has demanded that Harry handle the investigation.
Relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department.
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Sexual Content - 1/5
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Violence - 4/5
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Language - 2/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 1/5
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Summary
Overall The Drop by Michael Connelly continues the Harry Bosch series. The Drop has two main storylines. New DNA evidence from a 1989 rape and murder is a match to a man who would have been 8 years old at the time of the rape. This story is heartwrenching and violent. Disturbing to know what this 8 year old was subjected to and this serial killer is one of the worst. In the second story line Harry is investigating a death to determine if the man jumped or was pushed. This investigation is very political as the death is the son of Councilman Irving who has it out for the police department. Great mystery to keep you guessing.
Violence The acts were in the past but they were still disturbing. crimes some with kids.
Sexual
Language Not a lot of bad language but when they use profanity it is the F word
Sexual Sex occurs but there are not details. I rated the sex crimes under violence
Drug & Alcohol violence A bottle of wine.