Cover of The Burning RoomB+
FinishedDecember 29, 2014
GradeB+
GenreMystery
PublisherLittle, Brown and Company, 2014
★ Review · December 29, 2014

The Burning Room

by Michael Connelly


Not Connelly's best, but he really pulls you through the book, especially the Bosch novels.

Publisher Description

In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but all other evidence is virtually nonexistent. Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Starting with the bullet that's been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old information, which soon reveals that this shooting may have been anything but random.

Where this fits · 2014 reading log
Book 39 of 2014 · the 3rd Mystery read of the year.