Mystery Book Club:The Drop by Michael Connelly

Join us for a discussion of The Drop by Michael Connelly (2011).

A conundrum of a cold case. It is always a good month for mystery readers if there is a new Michael Connelly book at hand—doubly so if it happens to feature world-weary L.A. cop Harry Bosch. In Connelly’s latest, The Drop, Bosch commands the LAPD cold case unit, serving out his final three years before forced retirement. Cases scarcely get any colder—or any stranger—than his current one: Newly tested DNA evidence pinpoints a suspect in a 1989 rape/murder. Problem is, the alleged perpetrator was only eight years old at the time of the crime! While Bosch investigates that conundrum, another case falls in his lap courtesy of his longtime nemesis, city councilman Irvin Irving. There is no love (nor civility, for that matter) lost between the old adversaries, but Irving’s son fell or was pushed from a Chateau Marmont balcony, and the bereaved politician has thrown his considerable weight around to compel Bosch to conduct the investigation. The beleaguered cop will soon discover that his cold case has ramifications that reach into the present day, and the new case has its roots deep in the past.

As always, Connelly delivers a page-turner of the first order, again cementing his reputation as one of the finest contemporary American mystery writers.