LAST COYOTE

Suspended from his job with the LAPD, Harry Bosch must face the darkest parts of his past to track down his mother's killer, even if it costs him his life. Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognises that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was 12, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered, and no one has ever been accused of the crime. With the spare time which a suspension brings, Harry opens up the 30 year old case file and is irresistibly drawn into the past he has always avoided. It's clear there has been a cover up and someone powerful was able to divert justice. As Harry relentlessly follows broken pieces of the case, the stirred interest causes new murders and pushes Harry to the edge of his job - and his life. Popular quotes from the book by readers include: 'Loneliness had been the trash can fire he huddled around for most of his life.' 'There is a basic rule of nature. No living thing sacrifices itself or hurts itself needlessly.' Connelly has been hailed as America's greatest living crime writer. 442pp, paperback.