March 18, 2026
The Night Fire by Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch, now retired from the LAPD, is recovering from a knee replacement when he attends the funeral of a man who was his mentor when he first became a detective. After the funeral, the man's widow gives Harry a murder book that she found in her husband's desk, a case file of an unsolved crime. But when Harry examines the file, he discovers that the case was originally assigned to two other detectives and his mentor never worked on the case, and there is no explanation about why he has the file or why he was obsessed with the case.
I've read most of Connelly's Harry Bosch novels but this one took me a while to get into, mainly because there are three cases going on: Harry's cold case that surfaced after his mentor's death; his friend Renee is investigating the death of a homeless man found in his burning tent in LA's skid row; and Mickey, Harry's lawyer brother, is defending a man in a supposedly unwinnable case. The three cases turn out to be linked and come together at the end. This is a great series, although this wasn't one of my favorite books.
Skid Row in Los Angeles - it's a 50 block area in downtown Los Angeles where over 4,000 people live in tents
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