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The Black Box
by Michael Connelly
May 1992: Los Angeles is on fire—it is a city torn asunder by race riots. Among the dead is the lovely Anneke Jespersen, whose almost transparent whiteness indicates that she’s somehow out of place in the alley where Detective Harry Bosch finds her. Time is crucial in the solution of a murder, and time is something Harry Bosch has none of that night. The city is ablaze with rage and real fire; looters rule and violent chaos reigns. Still, knowing that somehow sometime soon someone will have to attempt to solve the murder, Bosch does what he can; he takes photographs and finds a spent shell casing.
Advance 20 years. Bosch has joined some of his colleagues in an attempt to solve cold cases, and Anneke Jespersen’s case has haunted his memory. Why did a young Danish reporter die in a riot-riddled Los Angeles alley? If the shell casing exists, and it certainly does, where is the gun that fired it? Bosch is sure if he can find the owner of the gun, he will find his killer. He theorizes that within every murder is a black box similar to what airplanes carry—a recorder of the events of that flight. If he can find the gun then trace it, he will have found his black box. But things are never as easy as they appear to be in Harry Bosch’s world.
What story was Anneke Jespersen working on when she died? What brought her to the United States? No one in her native Denmark knows, and it’s up to Bosch to figure out what happened and what her connection is to a group of men from California who served in Operation Desert Storm.
This book seems torn from the pages of our news cycle. It is a story of rape and power and murder, and it comes to life in Connelly’s masterful prose in ways that will make you glad you took time to read the book.
Advance 20 years. Bosch has joined some of his colleagues in an attempt to solve cold cases, and Anneke Jespersen’s case has haunted his memory. Why did a young Danish reporter die in a riot-riddled Los Angeles alley? If the shell casing exists, and it certainly does, where is the gun that fired it? Bosch is sure if he can find the owner of the gun, he will find his killer. He theorizes that within every murder is a black box similar to what airplanes carry—a recorder of the events of that flight. If he can find the gun then trace it, he will have found his black box. But things are never as easy as they appear to be in Harry Bosch’s world.
What story was Anneke Jespersen working on when she died? What brought her to the United States? No one in her native Denmark knows, and it’s up to Bosch to figure out what happened and what her connection is to a group of men from California who served in Operation Desert Storm.
This book seems torn from the pages of our news cycle. It is a story of rape and power and murder, and it comes to life in Connelly’s masterful prose in ways that will make you glad you took time to read the book.