City of Bones by Michael Connelly

City of Bones by Michael Connelly, 393 pages. Detective Harry Bosch and his partner Jerry Edgar are given the case when a child's bones are found in a shallow grave in the woods above a residential neighborhood. The bones were buried twenty years before, and forensics show that the child had suffered years of abuse before he died. Not the most pleasant read, but not as horrible as some child murder books. As the book opens, Bosch becomes romantically involved with a woman who had just joined the force. Given Bosch's history of relationship dysfunction, the reader doesn't expect a sunny end, but there are some surprises here. This one falls somewhere in the middle of the series, Bosch is about 50 and working out of the Hollywood division. I have read some of the older books in the series and the two or three most recent books, so it is kind of fun to randomly pick from the (many) that I have missed, and read those. Check our catalog.