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| Author | Michael Connelly |
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| Language | English/Spanish |
| Series | Harry Bosch #17 |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | November 3, 2014 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print, e-book |
| Pages | 400 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-0316225939 |
| Preceded by | The Black Box |
| Followed by | The Crossing |
The Burning Room is the 27th[citation needed] novel by American crime authorMichael Connelly, and the 17th novel featuringLos Angeles Police Department detectiveHarry Bosch.[1][2] The book was published byLittle, Brown and Company on November 3, 2014.[3]
The novel andThe Concrete Blonde formed the basis for the 2021 seventh season ofBosch, starringTitus Welliver as Bosch.[4]
LAPD detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner, Lucia Soto, are assigned the case ofmariachi performer Orlando Merced, who was shot in a crowdedLos Angeles square and was paralyzed from the waist down. The shooter was never found, and Merced survived for ten years before dying from complications from his wounds. When the bullet is finally removed from his body, Bosch establishes that Merced was shot with a hunting rifle and that the crime was a targeted hit, not a random act of gang violence as originally suspected. This new evidence leads Bosch to one of the city's most powerful businessmen, and a controversial formermayor with aspirations of becominggovernor.
Meanwhile, Bosch notices strange behavior from Soto and begins to suspect that she has gang affiliations. After catching her carrying out an off-the-books investigation, she reveals that she is a survivor of a notorious apartment fire that killed nine children; the fire remained unsolved after a key suspect disappeared without trace. Bosch fabricates a connection to the Merced case to protect Soto, and the two investigate the fire parallel to the Merced case. The trail leads them to a series of robberies acrossGreater Los Angeles that theFBI believe were used to fund awhite supremacist militia group, and ultimately to a witness hiding in aconvent on the Mexican border.
Over the course of the story, Bosch wrestles with the knowledge that his retirement is imminent. Bosch makes it his mission to train Soto to take over in the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit. Ultimately, he is caught breaking into the Robbery-Homicide Division offices as part of the Merced investigation; as a result, Bosch is placed on indefinite suspension pending an investigation. With less than a year until his retirement, he leaves Open-Unsolved knowing that he might never return.
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