Bosch always thought that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully
Bosch counted twenty-two names and it made him miss the old Los Angeles Times. In 1993 it was big and strong, its editions fat with ads and stories produced by a staff of some of the best and brightes...
Bosch knew that department policy held that deadly force was justified if it was used to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to an officer or a citizen. Mendenhall was not required to identify...
Bosch liked short prosecutors. They were always trying to make up for something and usually it was the defendant who ended up paying the price.
Bosch nodded. Ferras was good.
Bosch remembered that they had driven out to Malibu to eat breakfast at a place called Marmalade and afterward had watched the surfers at a nearby beach.
Bosch’s mind touched his memory of his brief meeting with his own father. A sick old man on his death bed. Bosch had forgiven him for every second he had been robbed. He knew he had to or he would fac...
Bureaucracy, politics, and the inability of public institutions to humbly acknowledge mistakes were all to blame. The two law enforcement agencies were biding their time, refusing comment on what they...
Damn Russians, Siegel muttered. I hope I live long enough to see that guy impeached.
Darkness waits. But it comes no matter what you do.
Death is my beat. I make my living from it. I forge my professional reputation on it. I treat it with the passion and precision of an undertaker--somber and sympathetic about it when I'm with the bere...
Did you
Edgar was silent as it registered. The background sound of television went quiet and he then spoke in the weak voice of a child asking
Eenie, meenie, minie, moe, catch a killer by the toe. If his lawyer’s Haller, let him go. Eenie, meenie, minie, moe. Hey bro.
Everybody has a need for their past, Bosch thought. Sometimes it pulls harder on you than the future.
Farmers Market, one of his favorite places in the city.
Florida? I’d never been there and all my life I’ve liked orange juice.
For Bosch such cynical thoughts came easily. He had been around the block a few times.
For every noble movement or advancement in the human endeavor across time, there were always betrayers who set everything a step back.
Funny, Dad, but my generation is visual. We don’t tell people what other people are doing. We show what we’re doing. We put up photos.
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