Non… Gratum… Anum… Ro—’ I can’t make that out. Rodentum, Bosch said. Sakai looked at him. Dog Latin, Bosch told him. Not worth a rat’s ass. He was a tunnel rat. Vietnam.
No matter what happens in the world, there will always be the need for heroes.
Mr. Elliot will see you now.
Medical Center for assessment and
Living in L.A. sometimes felt like you were riding shotgun with the devil to the apocalypse.
Lean in, invade that foot and a half that is all theirs, their own space. Lean back when you get what you want. It’s subliminal. Most of what goes on in a police interrogation has nothing to do with w...
I’m only a few years behind you, she said. It will happen to me. No, you’ll be fine, Bosch said. Your job is telling stories. Stories will always need to be told.
I’m a believer in the single-bullet theory. You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with th...
It’s his son,
It’s a left-brain right-brain thing. People are more agreeable toward people on their left.
It was every detective’s nightmare. The worst-case scenario. A lead ignored or bungled, allowing something awful to be loose in the world. Something dark and evil, destroying life after life as it mov...
It had been Bosch’s experience that when you looked back at a life, you used a magnifying glass. Everything was bigger, amplified.
In the morning, Bosch sat on the rear deck of his house and watched the sun come up over the Cahuenga Pass. It burned away the morning fog and bathed the wildflowers on the hillside that had burned th...
In his career, he had chased down hundreds of killers and put them in prison. If he was wrong about one, then it would put the lie to everything else. It would cast him adrift.
In a courtroom I can sell ice to Eskimos
If you go into darkness, the darkness goes into you. You then have to decide what to do with it. How to keep yourself safe from it. How to keep it from hollowing you out.
I suspected that Judge Leggoe would go along to get along.
I really enjoy mysteries, well-written fiction novels, historical novels, and the occasional vampire, wolf, human triangle as long as it's real
I found out who I was.
I felt sympathy for her but not too much. Idealism dies hard with everybody.