The Wrong Side of Goodbye
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4.3 • 9 Ratings
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- 69,00 kr
Publisher Description
Only Harry Bosch can uncover LA's darkest secrets in this new gripping thriller from global bestseller Michael Connelly.
'What do you want me to do?' Bosch asked again.
'I want you to find someone for me,' Vance said. 'Someone who might not have ever existed.'
Harry Bosch is working as a part-time detective in the town of San Fernando outside of Los Angeles, when he gets the invitation to meet with the ageing aviation billionaire Whitney Vance. When he was eighteen Vance had a relationship with a Mexican girl called Vibiana Duarte, but soon after becoming pregnant she disappeared.
Now, as he reaches the end of his life, Vance wants to know what happened to Vibiana and whether there is an heir to his vast fortune. And Bosch is the only person he trusts to undertake the assignment.
Harry's aware that with such sums of money involved, this could be a dangerous undertaking - not just for himself, but for the person he's looking for - but as he begins to uncover Vibiana's tragic story, and finds uncanny links to his own past, he knows he cannot rest until he finds the truth.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Connolly's canny detective, Harry Bosch, remains a compelling lead, but even longtime fans may feel that his creator gives him a few too many fortuitous breaks in his 21st outing (after 2015's The Crossing). Bosch's long career with the LAPD is a thing of the past, and he now divides his time between PI work and pro bono service as a reserve police officer for the city of San Fernando. He gets involved in an apparently impossible case for an extremely wealthy client, Whitney Vance, who pays Bosch $10,000 just to agree to a meeting. The 85-year-old Vance asks Bosch to find out, in complete secrecy, what became of the woman Vance impregnated 65 years earlier and who disappeared from his life almost immediately afterward. The billionaire, who believes he is nearing his end, hopes the investigator can ascertain whether he has a living heir. Though the trail is beyond cold, Bosch lucks into a solid lead. The multiple contrivances significantly diminish the plot.
Customer Reviews
The wrong side of goodbye
I have to disagree with The Publiser Weekly. I have bought and read on Harry Bosch everyday and have to say that the movie potensiell for this intriguing story left a really good feeling with the brothers new cases. The story left me smiling seeing the roses blooming after seize fire. Born in the era Bosch became young adult, late sixties, I remember the decades from hope and roses turned back towards greed, ultimately giving earthly nature, animals and ordinary people less progress as species and a carte Blanche to those with golden façade and black hearts the opportunity to dive head first into the abyss to add more layers to the golden fortress they share with their kind on the top of their world. For once money blossomed beauty artfully and with hope to a little piece of mr Bosch world. I liked that.
I also bought mr Matthew Mahogany’s biography about his journeys to find his inner self. Now I am curious to find out about the actor playing Bosch so time to see the books on films via Netflix. I hope they are as good asMr Connelly books.