Audiobook Review: THE DROP by Michael Connelly

THE DROP by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown Company, November 2011)  Audiobook. ISBN # 1600247237 / 9781600247231 

Synopsis on the Goodreads website . . . . .

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.  

My Four-Star Review on the Goodreads website . . . . .

     Nobody writes police procedurals better than Michael Connelly. Every time he injects realism, insights into police work and law enforcement, and fascinating insights into the character of Harry Bosch - - one of the good guys with a highly internalized sense of right and wrong.

      As always, this is peppered with the real world politics of police work and collaboration/confrontation with city government. Two separate and fascinating cases, each with deep moral lessons under the surface.

     We listened to the audio book on a trip to Indiana and part-way back. This certainly made the ride seem shorter and easier to manage.