Bosch is back and he’s facing some of his biggest challenges to date. Since retiring from the LAPD, Bosch has spent his time in a jail cell – not as a convict, but as a cold case researcher and hands-on back-up to the smaller San Fernando PD.
Arriving at the scene of a double homicide at a local pharmacy, Bosch is asked to take the lead and run the case to support the inexperienced team around him. As he and the team attempt to work out the motivation for such a brutal crime, Bosch’s past comes back to haunt him. A convicted death row murderer is seeking exoneration and Bosch was one of the presiding detectives – and it is his old stomping ground, the LAPD, who are out for Harry’s blood.
This case is not the only part of Bosch’s past that returns, with old friends appearing too, as the two cases blend and merge, pushing Harry to make dangerous decisions, forge unstable alliances and seek justice – not only for the dead, but for the living…including himself.
Juggling two cases, which will prove to be intimately personal, Bosch and the reader take a wild rollercoaster ride into the past and across the brutal present, seeking answers and hoping to, ultimately, find the truth.
Once again, Connelly weaves a gripping tale with his long established character of Harry Bosch at its centre. After 25 years, Harry has moved with the times – as has Connelly – and we are seeing an older, but still determined Bosch. He’s ruthless, reckless and as much a renegade as he was in his days at the LAPD.
If you’ve never read Connelly, he’s worthy of consideration for your summer reading list – as well as adding the current three seasons of the Titus Welliver lead series, Bosch.
Two Kinds of Truth is Michael Connelly’s 17th Harry Bosch novel, 31st novel overall and the second release for this year, following on from The Late Show.
Reviewed by Glen Christie
Rating out of 10: 8
Distributed by: Allen and Unwin
Released: November 2017
RRP: $32.99
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