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    Echo Park

    Written by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Len Cariou

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    In 1995, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the 22-year-old woman never turned up, dead or alive. Now Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where he still keeps the Gesto file on his desk, when he gets a call from the DA. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean about several other murders, including the killing of Marie Gesto. Bosch must now take Raynard Waits's confession and get close to the man he has sought - and hated - for eleven years. But when Bosch learns that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1995 that could have led them to Gesto's killer - and that would have stopped nine murders that followed - he begins to crack.
    Michael Connelly's suspenseful new novel pits the detective People magazine calls "one of the most complex crime fighters around" against one of the most sadistic killers he has ever confronted. It confirms that Michael Connelly "is the best writer of suspense fiction working today" (Richmond Times-Dispatch).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateOct 9, 2006
    ISBN9781594835889
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    Echo Park
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    Michael Connelly

    Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books have been translated into 36 languages and have won many awards. He lives with his family in Florida.

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    • 5/5
      Harry Bosch is Connelly's most popular character and he has put out over a dozen Bosch novels over the years. He is here an LAPD detective who came back from retirement to work cold cases, including a few he couldn't put down over the years. Marie Gesto disappeared after stopping at the Mayfair Market on Franklin on her way up Beachwood to the Sunset Stables. Her car and her neatly folded clothes were found in an apartment garage overlooking the Hollwyood Bowl, but her body was never found. Bosch always believed that it was a rich man's son who did it, but Bosch couldn't prove it even though he had hassled the son so much that there were countless restraining orders keeping Bosch away from the son.

      A man is found during an Echo Park traffic stop with bags of body parts with him. Soon, it turns out that the man is ready to confess to nine other murders including Marie Gesto's in order to avoid the needle. Although he leads Bosch and others to Gesto's body, Bosch isn't buying it and a world of trouble both political and law enforcement wise opens up. It was a great read. In fact, it was quick easy reading and absolutely compelling. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      This is a nice addition to the series. The plot is a bit complicated but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Thank goodness it's more updated with technology - I don't think I could read another where Harry puts his cellphone in a briefcase after he uses it.
    • 4/5
      Good serial killer detective fiction with Harry Bosch. Good villian.
    • 4/5
      Well MC did it to me again. Another enjoyable Bosch book. And we know all along who the killer is but do we?At about 90% in, we have a theory and I'm thinking that it's completely implausible but it's a thriller so go with it. I should have known better cos at that point, there is a complete right turn and suddenly what we and Bosch thought is wrong. Fooled again!
    • 4/5
      A dead man found in a tunnel is initially dismissed by the first responders as just another junkie who overdosed, with the exception of Harry Bosch, who noticed discrepancies in the crime scene that would indicate what the others have assumed. On closer examination of the corpse, Harry realizes that he knows the dead man, that he had served with him during the Vietnam War and that he was a member of a group known as the tunnel rats.Harry's tenaciousness is not appreciated from his own homicide department, to the FBI and especially not to individuals in Internal Affairs. With distrust from almost every corner and obstacles placed deliberately in his way, it takes Harry's craftiness, some luck and a whole lot of scheming and good detective work for him to tie the dead man to a bank heist, a Vietnamese police captain and eventually to the reason behind the chain of events that had taken place, which involved several murders.There are enough twists in the plot to keep the reader guessing until the very end.
    • 3/5
      Started extremely well, but I found the ending rather disappointing
    • 5/5
      Harry Bosch investigates an old case that haunted him for years when details of the case coincide with a new series of gruesome killings. Haunting book, even the bad guy is a little sympathetic.
    • 4/5
      This was my first Harry Bosch novel. It takes place in LA and has all the parts you would expect in a police mystery--good cop, bad cop, evil villain. I enjoyed the book, but I don't know that I will bother to get another from the series. It has enough twists to keep one turning the pages, but i found it a bit formulaic and predictable.
    • 4/5
      Harry's back and Persistent as ever. I was a bit disappointed in the last few Bosch novels but after reading "Echo Park" Michael Connelly and Harry Bosch are back with this excellent and well told tale. Harry Bosch has returned from retirement and is now working in the Open Unsolved Unit. The book opens with Harry working on a case that involves the murder of a young beautiful girl. Harry still remains a believable character. He has his flaws but overall he is a pretty decent fellow. In other words he's the same old Harry that I have always enjoyed reading about. Echo Park continues Harry's journey into the dark side of men and once again he gets knocked around, but his persistence keeps him faithfully at doing his job. In summary, I give Echo Park a enthusiastic endorsement.
    • 4/5
      Michael Connelly created another super Mystery. After I finished reading Echo Park I thought "what a great story" and I really enjoyed it. The plot was super and the author kept the action moving while keeping me wondering what was going to happen next. Overall, I though Echo Park was thrilling mystery and Michael Connelly as always never disappointed me in this story.If you are a mystery fan then don't miss this one. It's a fast pace of a read that will keep you turning page after page.
    • 4/5
      Another well written and fast paced Harry Bosh novel by Michael Connelly, Good plot and intriguing serial killer thriller.
    • 4/5
      A good Harry Bosch story. Connelly manages to maintain the high standards of this series of cop thrillers
    • 4/5
      Moving right along at a really fast pace Connelly yet again misses the opportunity to fine tune, or at least devote a paragraph towards Bosch's relationship with his ex wife and daughter. Another thing that is irksome is this continuing saga of bad cops. Of course the LAPD has it's share of corruption, but surely it would be realistic to have them go annoy another Detective or two for a while. Even so, this was one of the better ones. It moves great, has some interesting twists, and you're as stunned as Harry when the betrayer is revealed.
    • 4/5
      Another briskly entertaining crime novel from Connelly.
    • 3/5
      Harry Boesch is now part of the cold case division working a case of a missing woman that he investigated 13 years earlier. Harry fixes on a psycho as the killer while dealing with corruption in the ranks. He enlists the help of a female friend in the FBI but acts recklessly and is put on home suspension. I didn't enjoy this book as well as the others in the series that I've read.
    • 3/5
      Murder mystery, not very engrossing.
    • 5/5
      Synopsis:Back to the LAPD, Harry Bosch is now working with the Open-Unsolved Unit. All of a sudden, a serial-killer is caught by chance, and he's going to cooperate with the LAPD by pleading guilty to some murders in order to avoid capital punishment. One of these cases has been haunting Bosch since he began the investigations back in the early 90's, and he will now face the murderer he had been seeking for years.Personal Opinion:That's what I call a page-turner! Beautifully written, fast-paced and intriguing thriller by Michael Connelly, featuring his star character Harry Bosch. It's been my first Bosch story and I'm looking for more, as it's been a pleasant read.The plot is so interesting that you can't help but keep reading, the book being suspenseful from beginning to end. Don't expect the classic detective story, though; there's action, but the case is approached from a procedural perspective.The book turns out to be a kind of disclosure of the relations between politics, power and money. It is also a permanent debate between what's just and what's unjust (Bosch is constantly involved in a self-dispute about it). Actually, our main character shows his reflective personality by pondering over what he reckons is to be a detective.On the other hand, the story presents a rather classical stage for noir novels, but I'd say that Connelly does a good job describing the places and the environments of downtown LA, Hollywood and the surroundings of Echo Park.All in all, I just can say that I really enjoyed my first "Bosch experience" and that I highly recommend this novel to anyone looking for good detective stuff. Henceforth:
    • 4/5
      That "Echo Park" is my first experience with a Michael Connelly novel is a little hard for me to believe since it is at least the seventh or eighth Harry Bosch novel that I've purchased over the years. I've been aware of Connelly's success for a very long time, and even ran into him at a Houston bookstore when he was signing one of his first Harry Bosch books. But, read him, I had not done until now, so it was probably not a great idea for me to start with the twelfth book in the series - too much water under the bridge for Harry, his co-workers, his lovers (past and present), his friends and his enemies.That is not to say that "Echo Park" does not work well as a standalone novel, because it does stand just fine on its own. It is more the feeling I got that so much had already happened between some of the book's main characters that Connelly did not feel it necessary to fully develop them again in "Echo Park." But I'm not discouraged - I now plan to read the rest of the series in the order in which the books were written.Harry Bosch, now almost 60 years old, has returned to the LAPD where he works cold cases, some of which he has been working off and on for years, a few even from home before he rejoined the department. Harry was never able to forget the Marie Gesto case involving a young woman, assumed murdered, whose body was never found. All Gesto left behind was an empty apartment and the neatly folded set of clothing found on the seat of her car.Harry has a favorite suspect for the crime and periodically pushes on the man until a lawyer forces him to stay away from the suspect. When Harry is notified that someone else is willing to confess to the Gesto murder as part of a plea bargain to avoid the death penalty, he is slow to give up on his favorite suspect. It is only when serial killer Reynard Waits leads the police to where Gesto's body was hidden more than a decade before that Harry begins to believe that the real killer has been found.His instincts have served Harry well through the years, however, and his sense of unease about what he is told about Gesto's murder keeps him poking around the edges of the case until he becomes certain that there is much more to the plea bargain than he has been told.The Harry Bosch of "Echo Park" is a borderline rogue cop, a guy determined to see justice done, department rules, be damned. He is willing to risk not only his own life, but the life of his FBI lover, Rachel Walling, if it means that he gets his man. Echo Park is a textbook police procedural, even if Bosch does not always follow accepted police procedure, but it is also quite a thriller, encompassing an exciting manhunt and showdown that bring out both the best, and the worst, in Harry Bosch.Bosch seems to be a good cop trying to get by because it is all he knows how to do. It will be interesting to see how Harry ages as the series continues to move along, but first I am going to visit the much younger Harry Bosch from 1992's "The Black Echo" to see how different he was as a cop close to 20 years younger than the one in "Echo Park." It should be an interesting trip.Rated at: 3.5
    • 4/5
      Detective Harry Bosch, who has recently returned to the force after a try-out at retirement, is still haunted by some of his open cold cases, particularly the death of Marie Gesto, over a decade ago. He checks the case file out periodically and while he has it out this time, the Echo Park bagman (named because he was caught with garbage bags of body parts)is caught and eventually brokers a deal naming the Gesto murder as his. They call on Bosch to help verify the details of Raynard Waits confession, which includes a field trip to the grave site of Gesto. Somewhat predicatably, things go south and Bosch is caught in the middle of quite the mystery. A solid police procedural novel.
    • 3/5
      What keeps me coming back to this series is the personality of Harry Bosch and his ongoing tilting against his employers.
    • 5/5
      Brilliant. I was so wrapped up in the end I forgot to pay the bill at a restaurant! Luckily I was called back before I left the building. A continuing return to form for one of the best crime writers around.
    • 4/5
      Bosch returns as the lone wolf. The crime and intrigue were well set up with an interesting albeit simple psychological profile. The political intrigue was a thin and rather unbelievable. Good but not Connelly's best.
    • 5/5
      Another terrific outing for Harry Bosch in the Open Unsolved Unit, showing his usual pig-headed approach to solving crime by the book! A welcome reappearance of FBI Agent Rachel Walling too as well as other old friends like partner Kiz Rider and former partner Jerry Edgar.
    • 5/5
      Fun, fast-paced read that's hard to put down. Harry Bosch character is very likeable, and this plot was GOOD! After 15 years, a recently apprehended serial killer confesses to a crime that has haunted Bosch. A young woman on her way to a stable vanishes without a trace, her clothes found neatly folded on the front seat of her car. Many twists and turns later, we get to the heart of this confession.
    • 5/5
      Connelly remains one of the best suspense/detective fiction writers working today.
    • 5/5
      It's likely that a reader coming to Connelly for the first time would have a different take on Echo Park than a longer-time fan. This feels like one of his best-crafted tales to me. It's a procedural at heart, with themes of distrust of the system, corruption, and justice for victims intact, and some new twists thrown in.
    • 3/5
      narration was terrible. writing ok and potential is evident as seen in later novels. story idea is great. bad narration brings this down at least one star on ita own.
    • 5/5
      A decade old case still haunts LAPD detective Harry Bosch. It haunts him so much that every few months, he still pulls out the file in hopes of finding something he hasn't found before. And, then, suddenly a break in the case… Echo Park is another in the fine Bosch series. It is very much like all the rest - tightly written, excellent story, great characters. I don't think there can ever been too many in this series. I'm already ready for the next one.
    • 4/5
      This is a nice addition to the series. The plot is a bit complicated but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Thank goodness it's more updated with technology - I don't think I could read another where Harry puts his cellphone in a briefcase after he uses it.
    • 5/5
      Ai, yi, yi. Not a single flashback! Ha. Just one damn thing after another. Half way thru you won't believe what happens and there's still much, much more to go.