The Drop

In his fierce search for a new case, Detective Harry Bosch discovers a killer hiding behind suspicious DNA evidence -- and a political conspiracy that could destroy the Los Angeles Police Department.

DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court.

Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman Irvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont. Irving, Bosch's longtime nemesis, has demanded that Harry handle the investigation.

Relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 11/28/2011
ISBN: 9780316069410
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.47h x 6.40w x 1.41d

Review Citations: Library Journal 06/15/2011 pg. 59
Publishers Weekly 09/26/2011
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2011
Booklist 11/01/2011 pg. 26
Entertainment Weekly 12/02/2011 pg. 11
Romantic Times 12/01/2011 pg. 67 - Excellent
People Weekly 12/12/2011 pg. 61
Shelf Awareness 12/13/2011
New York Times Book Review 12/18/2011 pg. 26

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 148637 / Drop
Reading Level: 4.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 15