'Harry Bosch has finally quit the LAPD. When he left, he took a file with him - the case of a young woman murdered four years earlier. The crime was linked to a $2 million robbery on a movie set, and the LAPD think the money was used by terrorists.
Now, with time on his hands, Harry looks at the old file again. Something about the victim affected him deeply and the case has haunted him ever since. But when he decides to re-investigate, he falls foul of both his old colleagues and the FBI. And then someone from Bosch's past turns his world upside down...'

Don't think I've read any of this author's works before. My mum bought this one home from her Church Wives Group Bring and Buy stall this week and gave it to me - she knows I like a book that ends up with a body count!

I felt like I was reading a modern version or take on a Raymond Chandler novel with this book, it certainly carries that smokey, dive bar in lower Hollywood, where the glitter has long since gone and times are hard. As the jazz sings mournfully across the nicotine stained dance floor, our hero sits, nursing a cheap whiskey at the bar...
And although that's just the feeling I got from this book, our hero, Harry, spends more time driving the streets of L.A. and hurling himself in dangers way intentionally to find the killers of a young woman whose murder remains unsolved, and a disappered FBI agent who has simply vanished. Both cases are linked by the case of a million dollar heist from a film set three years gone, but all three cases are dozing away in the unsolved films of LAPD.
Harry, now retired, can't forget the tragic scene of the young woman found dead in her apartment's foyer, and is determined to discover the truth. Trouble is, the FBI are now showing an interest, convinced by Harry's smoke and mirrors that it's all tied up with a terrorist organisation. And theres another party interested in Harry's investigation and they, like the FBI, are determined Harry is going to leave this case be. Trouble is, they are determined to stop him dead in his tracks. Literally.
It all petered out a bit at the end for me, with the lead provided by a suggestion from another Law Enforcement Officer to Harry. That did ring slightly untrue - if Harry had spent 25 years of his life as a police officer, surely the possibility that becomes the key in solving all three cases *should* have become a variable way earlier on.
Some dramatic scenes throughout the book make it lively reading, and the sub-plot of Harry's relationship and mixed emotions about his ex-wife now living as high rolling Poker player in Las Vegas make him a fuller and more believeable character. For me anyway.
Don't know if I'll read anymore of Mr Connelly's works, but anyway, making it available for someone else to enjoy.

Taken to RAF Honington's 'Help for Heroes' Fun Day as a contribution to their bookstall - raising money for the charity.
Bookcrossing doing it's small bit for injured UK Servicemen and Women.