The Closers

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The Closers

Author	Michael Connelly
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Harry Bosch #11
Genre	Crime novel
Publication date	May 16, 2005
Media type	Print (hardcover, paperback)
Pages	416 pp
ISBN	0-316-73494-2
OCLC	57414458
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3553.O51165 C58 2005b
Preceded by	The Narrows
Followed by	The Lincoln Lawyer

The Closers is the 15th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the eleventh featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. This novel features a return to an omniscient third-person style narration after the previous two, set during Bosch's retirement (Lost Light and The Narrows) were narrated in from a first-person perspective.

Plot summary

LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) detective Harry Bosch is back on the force after a three-year retirement. Assigned to the Open-Unsolved (cold cases) unit and teamed with former partner Kizmin "Kiz" Rider, Harry's first case back involves the murder of 16-year-old high school girl Rebecca Verloren in 1988, reopened because of a DNA match to blood found on the murder weapon. The blood on the gun belongs to a local low-life white supremacist, Roland Mackey, a fact that links him to the crime via the victim's biracial family. But the blood indicates only that Mackey had possession of the gun, so how to pin him to the crime? Connelly meticulously leads the reader along with Bosch and Rider as they explore the links to Mackey and along the way connect the initial investigation of the crime to a police conspiracy orchestrated by Bosch's nemesis Irvin Irving to cover up the ties of a ranking officer's son with a neo-Nazi group. Most striking of all, in developments that give this novel astonishing moral force, the pair explore the "ripples" of the long-ago crime, how it has destroyed the young girl's family—leaving the mother trapped in the past and plunging the father into a nightmare of homelessness and alcoholism—and how it drives Rider, and especially Bosch, into a deeper understanding of their own purposes in life.

Major Characters

Harry Bosch:Harry Bosch is the lead detective in the story. Bosch returns to L.A.P.D. after three year retirement.Bosch works in open-unsolved or the cold cases division of L.AP.D. Bosch is an intelligent detective who leaves no stone upturned. Bosch is left-handed.Bosch is the only member of his police academy class still working for the LAPD.

Kizmin Rider:Kizmin "Kiz" Rider is an African American detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. She initially worked robbery and fraud in the Pacific Division before moving to the homicide table in the Hollywood Division where she was assigned to Squad One along with Harry Bosch and Jerry Edgar.She had convinced the chief to take 'harry' back to service.

v t e Novels by Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch series	The Black Echo (1992) The Black Ice (1993) The Concrete Blonde (1994) The Last Coyote (1995) Trunk Music (1997) Angels Flight (1999) A Darkness More Than Night (2001) City of Bones (2002) Lost Light (2003) The Narrows (2004) The Closers (2005) Echo Park (2006) The Overlook (2007) 9 Dragons (2009) The Drop (2011) The Black Box (2012)

Mickey Haller series	The Lincoln Lawyer (2005) The Brass Verdict (2008) The Reversal (2010) The Fifth Witness (2011) The Gods of Guilt (2013)

Jack McEvoy series	The Poet (1996) The Scarecrow (2009)

Other novels	Blood Work (1998) Void Moon (2000) Chasing the Dime (2002)

Film adaptations	Blood Work (2002) The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)

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