Finished Mo 8/6/18
I mistakenly ordered this from Amazon Books after reading the previous book in the Harry Bosch Series. Almost the day that I received the book, I noticed it on my shelf in the study. No harm, no foul because I loved the book.
NOTES:
Harry had been retired for almost three years and his female Afro-American partner, Kiz Rider pulled some strings to get him back on the force. He and Kiz are on the 'cold case' squad- renamed, 'Open Unsolved'.
Their first case is a seventeen year old murder that seems to be a slam dunk because DNA evidence has been found.
A 16 year old girl, Becky Verloren was taken from her home near Oat Mountain in Los Angeles. At first it was thought to be a suicide, but taser marks were found on the girl's neck. DNA was found on the automatic weapon. It's thought that the killer was a Mel Gibson fan and was firing his gun in the 'Hollywood' manner. The automatic handgun 'bites' the shooter in the web of skin between the thumb and the forefinger.
Becky's mother has kept her room exactly as it was the night she disappeared. Her father left his lucrative restaurant and became a drunk on skid row. Bosh locates him as a chef in a half-way house and he's been three years sober. In the end he starts using again, ends up in jail so that he can murder Stoddard. He did it with a sharpened spoon.
Roland Mackey is a match for the DNA and had been, and is still involved with White Supremacist gangs, and has been in and out of prison. He drives a tow truck.
ANSWER:
The killer is Principal Stoddard. This man was in love with Becky Verloren. When she became pregnant, she wanted an abortion and he wanted a life with her. When he's caught he says that the gun was to use to kill himself, but Bosch reminds him of the taser.
Although Bosch believes that a true detective must 'get off your ass, and knock on doors'. But he also firmly believes in studying 'the murder book'. Bosch is meticulous, and his one minor fault might be that he doesn't keep his partner in the loop.
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