Quotes About Investigation

Michael Connelly

charge for the Times—thanks to Bosch

time. He also discovered that the burglar was still inside. It was this discovery that ultimately brought Detective Harry Bosch and his partner, Jerry Edgar, to the Three Kings Pawnshop.

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

A veces creo que conozco a los desconocidos mejor que a nadie, mejor que a mí mismo. Aprendo mucho de la gente en mi trabajo. A veces pienso que ni siquiera tengo vida. Solo tengo la vida de los demás…

What Bosch had were just parts of the whole. What he needed was the glue that would correctly hold them together. When he had first received his gold shield he had a partner on the robbery table in Van Nuys who told him that facts weren't the most important part of an investigation, the glue was. He said the glue was made of instinct, imagination, sometimes guesswork and most times just plain luck.

captain's office?" he asked.

Anything else I should know

Michael Connelly

BMW electrics that were used by the forensics teams. The department had bought a fleet of them for use by detectives, but the sixty-mile range per battery charge limited their usefulness when detectives needed to go farther while riding the momentum of a case. The advertised range also dropped considerably in freeway driving, and it was a rare thing to conduct an investigation in L.A. without driving on a freeway.

It was difficult work. Bosch never got accustomed to viewing crime scenes. He had been to hundreds of them and seen the result of human inhumanity too many times to count. He always thought that if he got used to it, then he had lost something inside that was needed to do the job right. You had to have an emotional response. It was that response that lit the match that started the fire of relentlessness.

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

Michael Connelly

name many, many more.

consideration when the DNA report landed. Bosch didn't think he would have done so, even with a direct DNA match to another suspect. He wrote a note on his pad. It was just one word: Manley. Bosch

watching the two detectives from the next room.

We called it the black echo.

somehow acquired when the rapist

Lost Light The Narrows The Closers

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

He taught Bosch early on that in society all victims are not created equal, but to the true detective they must be.

authors: Alafair Burke, Steph Cha, Ivy Pochoda.