Echo Park
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Une sale affaire, 13 ans de mystère et, soudain, un suspect prêt à passer
aux aveux ? Ce serait si simple…
Pour Harry Bosch, échouer à résoudre une affaire est insupportable. Toujours hanté par la jeune Marie Gesto, disparue à la sortie d’un supermarché d’Hollywood en 1993 et jamais retrouvée, il a inlassablement, année après année, rouvert le dossier. Jusqu’au jour où le district attorney lui signale qu’un individu soupçonné de deux meurtres serait prêt à avouer, mais à l’unique condition d’obtenir un plaider-coupable qui lui éviterait la peine de mort. Bosch se méfie immédiatement : ce suspect ne chercherait-il pas à tromper la justice ? Lauréat 2006 du prix du meilleur thrilleer décerné par le Los Angeles Times
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Connelly's compelling 12th Harry Bosch novel (after 2005's The Closers) offers some new wrinkles on a familiar theme the aging detective haunted by the one who got away. In Bosch's case, the elusive quarry is the man who abducted a 22-year-old equestrian, Marie Gesto, in 1993. Having returned to active duty as a member of the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit, Bosch repeatedly pulls the file to see if he can discover something new and give some small solace to the victim's parents. When a chance police stop of a suspicious vehicle nets serial killer Raynard Waits, who's carrying body parts in his van, Bosch assesses the murderer's claim that he was responsible for killing Gesto, too. The weary and cynical detective soon suspects that Waits is trying to barter information for a reduced sentence of life imprisonment. Political motivations connected with the upcoming DA election also cloud the investigation. Smooth prose and plausible characters even the secondary figures elevate this several notches above the standard cop vs. serial-killer thriller. Author tour.
