Unlike wine, criminal cases don’t get better with age. The LAPD’s greatest brokenhearted idealist, Bosch is tough, sensitive and driven, conducting the investigation into the old murder with his usual sense of purpose. Harry Bosch and longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller - must join forces to get justice for the dead girl’s family while preventing further murders.īosch, who has appeared in many of Connelly’s books, is a familiar and welcome presence. Now that DNA evidence has led to the reversal of Jessup’s conviction, two of Connelly’s greatest creations - LAPD Det. Tow truck driver Jason Jessup was convicted of her murder. Twenty-four years ago, while playing hide-and-go-seek with her sister, little Melissa Landy was taken from the frontyard of her Hancock Park home. It manages to condense decades of time and reams of information into a compelling narrative that adeptly explores various elements of L.A.’s own version of what passes as a criminal justice system. “The Reversal,” Connelly’s new novel, might be his best: a crackling-good read, smart and emotionally satisfying. Without him, Los Angeles would just be Houston without humidity, Phoenix with the sea.

City Hall’s a morass, Hollywood an aging incompetent - building vacancies line the potholed streets, and there is little comfort to be found anywhere. The Trojans are on probation, the Bruins are bad and the NFL has abandoned us entirely.

Our Dodgers, victims of a broken marriage, are the neglected boys of summer.

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