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Harry Bosch · Book 8

City of Bones

by Michael Connelly

Published
1 April 2002
Pages
400
ISBN-13
9780759566828
Type
novel

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Cover of City of Bones

About this book

City of Bones (2002), the eighth installment at 400 pages, keeps Harry Bosch working Los Angeles homicide cases with the same insubordinate streak toward bureaucracy that has marked the character since his 1992 debut.

Its place in Harry Bosch

City of Bones is book 8 in the Harry Bosch series. It follows A Darkness More Than Night. It is followed by Lost Light. See the full Harry Bosch reading order.

Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch is an LAPD homicide detective shaped by abandonment: orphaned son of a murdered Hollywood prostitute, Vietnam "tunnel rat," institutional survivor. His code — everybody counts or nobody counts — makes him relentless on behalf of victims nobody else will fight for, and insubordinate toward every boss, bureaucracy and political convenience in Los Angeles. Michael Connelly introduced him in The Black Echo (1992), a case that reaches back into Bosch's Vietnam tunnels, and has aged him in real…

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