The Drop

De: Michael Connelly

Narrado por: Len Cariou

Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.

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.

It's BOGO Bosch!

Pay for one, get two Harry Bosch novels entwined here in "The Drop" AND…. a bridge to Connelly's next Bosch… "The Black Box"! Plus this is totally great Michael Connelly. Here Harry goes puzzling-out the mysteries of a "Splatter" who's found seven stories below his penthouse terrace while Bosch's also working through the mindset of a pedophile who's got an astonishing alibi as a suspect in a rape/murder.

Of course both cases are cemented together with procedural detail and cop-politics. Connelly's never been better, nor has Michael McConnohie. As usual, I recommend you start Bosch from the beginning of this epic series to capture all the whorls and whims of Connelly's imagination, but hey… If you just want to start your Bosch experience somewhere…

Drop in here…

Great story - bad narrator

Where does The Drop rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Yet another great story by Connelly, unfortunately spoiled by poor, monotonous performance by Len Cariou. Nobody beats Dick Hill. Nobody.

into the meat grinder

I follow these novels and eagerly await the next . . . but I think I might be getting tired of them. Bosch is Bosch, and it's beginning to no longer be enough. He adamantly pursues his singleminded goal, creating yet another grim procedural, where despite the adversaries and setbacks and potential distractions, Bosch is a procedural machine whose gears might get a little rusty but won't stop grinding . . . until people no longer want to hear about it. The reader is good, but perhaps contributes to this sense of exhaustion I have by being perhaps unimaginative in his inflections of the straighforward prose. The story has a real bad guy and plenty of complexity and false leads and it kept me listening . . . but I felt little satisfaction from the successful outcome, only a kind of relief that it was over at last . . .

Connelly at his best

Would you consider the audio edition of The Drop to be better than the print version?

The audio edition is great, I bought the print version also.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

Just when you thought you had it all figured out it turned on a different note.

Which scene was your favorite?

My favorite scene was when Bosch figured out that Chill was impersonating his father.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

YES! laugh and cry.

Any additional comments?

A great listen, I was so sorry it ended. Can't wait for the next installment of Bosch.

Another excellent Harry Bosch book...but

What did you love best about The Drop?

This time Harry has 2 mysteries to solve. He does his usual good job with both.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Drop?

I liked the political back story. It's "so LA".

How could the performance have been better?

The reader made all the details sound like a lecture. I felt like I should take notes for a test on police procedures.