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An anonymous tip puts Bosch on a case that has remained unsolved for decades: the vicious stabbing of a teenage boy whose body was found in an abandoned Old Hollywood restaurant. Cold cases are often the toughest: with no body, no murder scene, and no fingerprints, Bosch nevertheless gets lucky when DNA evidence from the murder weapon points to a known killer. But the DA insists that science alone is not enough - he needs the case to be bulletproof before he'll take it to court.

Determined to speak for those who can no longer speak for themselves, Bosch has one chance to wrench a confession out of a cold-blooded killer, or risk letting him walk free for good.

In this gripping, never-before-published short story by Michael Connelly, Detective Harry Bosch quenches his thirst for justice and shows why he is 'one of the most popular and enduring figures in American crime fiction' (Chicago Tribune).

**Also includes an excerpt from The Gods of Guilt.**

Length: 63 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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Connelly is a crime writing genius - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY While the themes of Connelly's LA crime novels are familiar (power, envy, corruption), his plotting is anything but - ESQUIRE This latest novel is as shamelessly entertaining as its predecessors, with the customary skilful plotting even more burnished...in the crime fiction stakes Connelly is comfortably in the upper bracket - DAILY EXPRESS on The Fifth Witness Connelly is superb at building suspense through the accreditation of detail - WALL STREET JOURNAL --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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A brand new Harry Bosch ebook from bestselling crime writer Michael Connelly --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

ASIN : B00HUKDWLM
Publisher : Allen & Unwin (2 January 2014)
Language : English
File size : 1965 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 63 pages

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Milo

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Reviewed in Australia on 27 February 2014

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What a rip off Amazon.
I purchase this book on special for Kindle on my pc and was totally enthralled only for the book to stop and carry on with an excerpt from another book from Michael Connelly (which I also want to read)
so I paid for a book on special only to find it was no more than an excerpt from two books.
I might try some more Amazon Kindle books but not if this underhand practice is normal.

17 people found this helpful

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Brian Edginton

My Last Connelly Book

Reviewed in Australia on 11 April 2014

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I have to say that I wish I had read the reviews before buying. Yeah...only a couple of dollars....but that doesn't relieve the disappointment.
I notice, now, the book description says it is 68 pages.
Fair warning if you read fine print.

Wasn't a story. Was a prologue.

I was going to ask who was the clown who gave it a star.
But I see, now, it is the only way to get the review to submit.

7 people found this helpful

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bob

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Reviewed in Australia on 2 March 2014

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where is the rest of the book? I enjoyed what I read but you can't be serious about selling two half books under the pretence of one original story.This was my first book on kindle, I hope this is not the norm because I feel RIPPED-OFF

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Graham

Very disappointing

Reviewed in Australia on 24 March 2014

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I have purchased many books from Kindle but this is the first time I have ever received half a story. I was enjoying the story but have rated poorly as only get to read a small portion. Very unhappy and hope it never happens to me again :( Not good Kindle

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Enid Dougherty

What Happened Harry

Reviewed in Australia on 24 July 2014

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this book was too short and it ended up in the air, the rest of the book was taken up with a review of another book that I had already read I'm a real fan of Harry Bosh but this one left me wondering what happened to all the characters.

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elaine

switchblade

Reviewed in Australia on 20 June 2018

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Perhaps Amazon does not realize this book is simply a sample what does Michael Connelly think of this practice which is totally incongruous with his style. Very tacky and disappointing to abruptly end what began as a promising read.

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shirleY BASILEzKi ndle Customer

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Reviewed in Australia on 27 December 2016

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IT WAS VERY GOOD HELD YOUR Attention. Would recommend it . I LIKE ALL HIS BOOKS AS MICHAEL CONNELLY BRINGS ALL HIS EXPERIENCE TO WHATEVER BOOK HE WRITES.

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Heikki P.

what a rip off!

Reviewed in Australia on 11 July 2014

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I have read through every single Harry Bosch novel, and was really excited that there was a new one. The story itself is only 50 pages long, and majority of the book is an extract from Gods of Guilt book, which I had read already. What a scam! It should say it in BIG letters that you are only buying a small story...

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Ian

DO NOT BUY: Far too short for the price

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 January 2014

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I hope Michael Connelly sacks whoever priced this book, because it is criminally short. I know it's a short story but I would have felt conned if it was 99p, let alone £1.99. It's not even a particularly good story by Connelly's standards. I am a real fan and have read all his books and greatly enjoyed most of them, but this was very disappointing.

I see that there are currently 88 reviews on the US Amazon site, of which 76 give only 1 star for exactly the same reason, so they must have priced it ridiculously high there too. I would have thought Amazon would be trying to help get Bosch as much publicity as possible, because he is the subject of one of their first forays into television, but the only publicity that this book will get is bad.

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Too expensive mate.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 January 2014

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Love Bosch. Love the author. Am OUTRAGED at £1.99 price. Very disappointed and feel ripped off.

WHAT A LOAD OF OLD FLANNEL.

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B. Cooper

Great Connelly - but rubbish Kindle!!!!!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 January 2015

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Being a Michael Connelly book, I would have given it 5 stars. In fact, the part I read was easily worth 5 stars. However, it's a Kindle book, and subject to the same foibles many readers must have observed with the Kindle products, but this is much worse than a small foible. 'Switchblade' proceeded admirably in Connelly fashion until I reached what my iPad told me was Loc 293 of 808 - THEN ABRUPTLY CHANGED TO A SAMPLE OF 'THE GODS OF GUILT'. That sample carried on to the end of the Kindle offering, so my purchase hasn't been delivered.

This is just the latest in a number of Kindle books I've received that seem to have been converted to the format and not subsequently properly checked for quality or accuracy. Nonsensical layout, poor spacing, incorrect OCR transcription and other careless incidents spoil what should be a good product. It's little wonder that conventional print books are regaining popularity.

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A. R. Jacubs

Michael Connelly's low point.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2015

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Come on Michael you have let yourself down with this so called novel. I had just started to get interested in it when I was confronted with a preview for Gods of Guilt a book I read in November 2013. As others have said this so called book would have been overpriced at 99p. I have purchased every one of M/C's books and read many twice and can't believe he has sanctioned the sale of this. Michael is my favourite author in this genre hence my amazement at this attempt to advertise a "proper" book. It should be withdrawn immediately if only to protect his reputation.

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Del

Be Aware

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2014

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This is a bit of a rip off. The price is cheap and the short story is a good one. However you think that it is longer than it is. You get interested in the short story and think that there is at least another two chapters to go but suddenly it is over. The reason is that half this book is advertising his next novel. What you actually get is a short story and then two chapters of The Gods of Guilt. I am a huge fan of Michael Connelly and have read everything he has done. The short story is good but short and the rest is just promoting the next book. Don't blame the author - it's the publisher who is at fault.

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