Burning Room -- Free Preview -- The First 8 Chapters

The new thriller from #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Michael Connelly follows Detective Harry Bosch and his new partner as they investigate a recent murder where the trigger was pulled nine years earlier.<br><br>In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but all other evidence is virtually nonexistent.<br><br>Now Bosch and rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Beginning with the bullet that's been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old information, which soon reveal that this shooting may have been anything but random.<br><br>In this gripping new novel, Michael Connelly shows once again why Harry Bosch is "one of the greats of crime fiction" (<i>New York Daily News</i>).