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City of Bones

Written by: Michael Connelly
Narrated by: Peter J. Fernandez
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Publisher's Summary

On New Year's Day, Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch fields a call that a dog has found a bone - a bone that the dog's owner, a doctor, feels certain is human.

That chance discovery leads Bosch to a shallow grave in the Hollywood hills, evidence of a murder committed more than 20 years earlier. It's a cold case, but it stirs up Bosch's memories of his own childhood as an orphan in the city. Digging through police reports and hospital records, tracking down street kids and runaways from the 1970s, Bosch finds a family ripped apart by an absence - and a trail, ever more tenuous, into a violent, terrifying world.

As the case takes Bosch deeper into the past, a rookie cop named Julia Brasher brings him alive in the present in a way no one has in years. Bosch has been warned about the trouble that comes with dating a rookie, but no warning could withstand the heat between them - or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes a hard turn.

Drawing on the "precision-tooled twists" and "wellspring of authentically lurid detail" (Los Angeles Magazine) that have made him one of the fasted-selling novelists at work today, Michael Connelly has written a riveting, hard-edged, and unforgettable thriller.

©2002 Hieronymus Inc., All Rights Reserved (P)2002 Time Warner AudioBooks, a Division of the AOL Time Warner Book Group

What the critics say

"Dark and angst-ridden...crackles with energy." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Hard-boiled cop fiction at its most gripping." ( Booklist, starred review)

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Love the ending

Enjoyed the story and the narrator. I especially love the ending leaving us in suspense….

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I enjoyed this book, #8 of the Harry Bosch books. The narrator, Peter J. Fernandez, was very good. He's no Dick Hill but he's good. Unfortunately, there was some music at the end of the chapters that was strange, unnecessary and contributed nothing to the story.

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technical issue ?

story is as good as ever. unfortunately, the recording is bad and uneven. it's cutting each sentences abruptly. too annoying to finish the book.

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Narrorator was ok, Story as always was amazing

some of the char voices sounded too similar and the female portrayals could use work as they all sounded exactly the same. I have heard better but also have heard worse. story as with all bosch novels is amazing.

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