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Echo Park - Michael Connelly

 
Description: ISBN 0752865846 / Author: Michael Connelly / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Synopsis In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missing persons squad to the Homicide ... more
Echo Park - Michael Connelly ... 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: ... the young Marie Gesto. The DA's office calls, announcing they have a suspect for multiple murders, and that he has confessed ... more

 ... 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, Bosch jumps at the chance, but soon finds himself caught up in a twisting and turning web of deceit, lies and corruption. My Opinion Bosch has evolved over the course of Connelly's books, but the one trait the character has always had is tenacity. The detective's lack of respect for his superiors when a victim or a criminal needs dealing with is always well documented. In Ech...more

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Premium Review Echo Park - Michael Connelly: Back to Echo Park (327 words)
by pmcds - written on 05/05/08 (Useful, 14 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, ...

 

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