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 Echo Park - Michael Connelly
 Echo Park - Michael Connelly ... supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missing persons squad to the Homicide Division, where Harry Bosch was assigned the case. But the young woman never turned up - dead or alive - and it was a case Bosch couldn't crack. Thirteen years later Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where he still keeps the Gesto file on his desk, when he gets a call from the DA's office. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of those murders, he says, is the killing of Marie Gesto. Bosch is now assigned to take Raynard Waits' confession and to make sure the killer is not scamming authorities to avoid a date with death. In confirming the confession Bosch must get close to the man he has sought - and hated - for thirteen years. Bosch's whole being as a cop begins to crack when he comes to realise that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 that could have led them to Waits and would have stopped the nine murders that followed the killing of Marie Gesto.Newest Review: ... character of the series, who was assigned the case of missing Marie Gesto in 1993. Unable to solve the murder due to lack of ... more ... evidence and no body in sight, the case haunts Bosch, who frequently re-runs the case every few months hoping to find the missing links.
Years on and a new case opens, this time in the form of a deal presented to Bosch by other agents and a lawyer. This shady deal involves a killer confessing to several murders, including Gesto. Although this isn't the man Bosch considered to be responsible for Gesto's disappearance, the evidence is convincing as the murderer, Waits, leads him to Gesto's body.
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Read Reviews for Echo Park - Michael Connelly
Echo Park - Michael Connelly: 100% Connelly, 100% Addictive (631 words)
by - written on 19/07/09 (Very useful, 16 readings)
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I've only recently been getting into crime novels, and decided to pick up a Michael Connelly book from the library after he was recommend to me. Connelly is a big name in crime writing, and I now I can see why. Echo Park is part of Connelly's Bosch series, clocking in at number 12. Having not read any of Connelly's work before, let alone any previous books in the Bosch series, I thought I would be a little lost by picking this up. This wasn't the case; you don't need to have read any of the Bosch books before, although I'm sure having done so will only help build up your image of the famous detective. The blurb on the back gives a rough of idea of ... Read the complete review
Bosch does it again (284 words)
by - written on 17/05/09 (Somewhat useful, 5 readings)
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I bought this book from my book club as it was on offer the author looked familiar and it was in the thriller section. To my relief it was part of the Harry Bosch series which I had read a couple of years ago and had really enjoyed. I knew from then on it was a winner. Harry Bosch is a LAPD cop who has just come out of retirement and is working on the Open Unsolved Unit. He just cant stop thinking about a case in 1993 that he never closed. Marie Gesto went missing in 1993 and was presumably murdered however no body or culprit was found just her clothes folded up neatly left in an abonded car in a garage. It is an obsession with Harry and he takes ... Read the complete review
Echo Park - Michael Connelly: Back to Echo Park (327 words)
by - written on 05/05/08 (Useful, 15 readings)
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Echo Park is award winning crime author Michael Connelly's 17th novel, and it features two of his characters from previous books, Harry Bosch and Rachel Walling. The Plot Since his return to the LAPD, Detective Harry Bosch has worked in the Open Unsolved Unit, working on past crimes that have not been solved. One such case was his to begin with, back in 1993, a missing persons case, the young Marie Gesto. The DA's office calls, announcing they have a suspect for multiple murders, and that he has confessed to kidnapping Marie Gesto and murdering her as well. Anxious for closure, and even more keen once the suspect offers to lead them to the body, ... Read the complete review
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