August 20, 2012

"The Drop" by Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch yet again finds his way into a Michael Connelly masterpiece in The Drop. This time around, Harry is faring a little better as he has been accepted back in the LAPD and given three years before he retires, which only lights his hunger for more cases to solve (because what he went through in The Last Coyote was just so much damn fun for him).

Finally, he finds something to satisfy his appetite when the DNA of a 29-year-old rapist matches that from a 1989 rape and murder… which would make the man eight years of age at the time… or mean that a mistake has been committed at the lab, which would compromise all of the DNA cases that are currently in court.

In the meantime, while all this bedlam is getting sorted, Harry and his partner are called to another death scene where councilman Irvin Irving’s (whose parents apparently weren’t very creative) son was pushed or jumped from a window.

Despite being Harry’s nemesis, Irving asks the he be the one to handle the investigation, an offer which Harry obviously accepts, like every good nemesis should.

Instead of deciding which case is more important, Harry decides to handle them both at the same time, plunging himself into a dark and seedy underworld where he makes some shocking discoveries; a killer that has been having fun in the city for over thirty years, and as usual, a conspiracy involving his police department that takes him deep into the past.

Will Harry be able to untie all the knots and manoeuver through all the twists and turns that have been set for him? Will he find the culprits and be able to bring them to justice as a simple cop in the LAPD?

The Drop is a novel which smells of Michael Connelly miles away, in the sense that even though it may lack some kind of philosophical and deeper meaning, it still makes for a very interesting, thrilling and entertaining murder mystery which you won’t be able to stop reading until it’s over.

I find it to be the perfect pastime for lazy days or whenever I have free time which I don’t know what to do with.



Michael Connelly (Author)

Michael Connelly


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Michael Connelly is perhaps one of the most popular modern writers, starting has career when he discovered Raymond Chandler’s writings at his university.

To support himself, he worked at the local newspaper while specializing in crime, which shows in virtually all of his works touching on criminal subjects, such as The Black Box and The Lincoln Lawyer.

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