Ottima indagine di Bosch, tornato al servizio della LAPD dopo la soluzione del caso del "Poeta" come detective privato.
Trama ben congegnata e buona dose di colpi di scena fino all'ultima pagina, finale magari un po' banale ma comunque inaspettato.
Qualcuno però deve spiegarmi il significato del titolo del libro....io proprio non l'ho capito!
Un appunto alle note di copertina che spoilerano la trama...non leggetele! ( )

That late into a series (this is the 11th Bosch novel), you either like (or at least tolerate) the author's style and the main detective's oddities (and/or the supporting cast) or you had bailed out a long time ago. Technically this one may be a good place to start into the series (old grievances coming into the open notwithstanding) but as with most modern crime series, it works better as part of the series.

Bosch is back into LAPD, partnered again with Kiz but this time not in the Homicide team proper but in the Open/Unsolved Unit - the LAPD name for the Cold Cases. Early in the book, a character notes that the biggest obstacle to working on these is not time but the department itself - things had been lost (intentionally or not; permanently or not) through the years and solving puzzles with missing pieces is never fun (solving puzzles when someone mixed in pieces from other puzzles is even worse and that is often the case with these as well). As is often the case, that's not there just to fill the pages - it tells you where this story is heading early on - see my note above about the author's style.

His return to the force seems to start very well - there had been a positive DNA match in the murder of Rebecca Verloren 17 years ago, back in 1988. Except that nothing in this case sounds right to Bosch. Cold cases novels can be a bit slow - usually noone is in a particular hurry after all those years. The murder may be a cold case or open/unsolved if you will) but the new investigation opens a lot of old secrets and wounds - in ways that a lot of people would rather not see them open.

As usual, Los Angeles, the city and its history, are an important element of the novel - Bosch cannot exist elsewhere and in a different time. That adds some depth to the story but it also is probably one of the weaker novels in the series - some of the topics it covered sounded like a rehash of the same topics in earlier stories. One thing the novel works for is showing Bosch changing even more - he was the lone wolf who did not care about anyone at the start of the series and now almost feels like a team player (until he does not of course). His professional relationship with Kiz is a lot more strained than the last few times we saw them together - and it is not just because Bosch is being himself.

Overall not a bad entry in the series and I like where Bosch is going (and I much prefer him inside the police than outside of it as in the last few novels). ( )

The books in this series are amazing!
You start reading them and the next thing you know you are 100 pages in. All of them are solid well gold stories.
This time Harry is back after a 3 year leave
He works in open unsolved cases, this case is 17 years old and is about a 16 year teenager who was murdered.
Fantastic book. ( )

Después de tres años de retiro, Harry Bosch se reincorpora a la unidad de Casos Abiertos del Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles. En compañía, de nuevo, de Kiz Rider, Bosch intentará resolver el caso de Rebecca Verloren, una joven mestiza brutalmente asesinada diecisiete años atrás. Gracias a las nuevas tecnologías, se ha podido extraer el ADN de una muestra de sangre hallada en el revólver con el que se cometió dicho crimen. La sangre corresponde al militante de la extrema derecha Mackey, lo que hace sospechar a Bosch y Rider de un crimen por motivos racistas; un indicio más que probable para desentrañar un asesinato que en su momento consternó a la opinión pública. Y es que, a pesar del paso de los años, Bosch sigue siendo uno de los mejores detectives de la ciudad... y ha vuelto para demostrarlo y para acallar las voces de los agoreros.

I give it three and a half stars. I liked it, but felt it was a little slow. Good story and love Harry Bosch. ( )