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* ResignedInDisgrace: A variation. [[spoiler:In a parallel to Harry coming out of early retirement, Irving is forced to take early retirement by the new Chief of Police.]]
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* ResignedInDisgrace: A variation. [[spoiler:In a parallel to Harry coming out of early retirement, Irving is forced to take early retirement by the new Chief of Police.Police after his past machinations finally come back to bite him in the ass. Even better, despite all his political savvy, Irving genuinely didn't see this coming.]]
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* ResignedInDisgrace: A variation. [[spoiler:In a parallel to Harry coming out of early retirement, Irving is forced to take early retirement by the new Chief of Police.]]
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After a three-year hiatus from the LAPD, Bosch has been re-hired. He has been transferred to the Open-Unsolved unit and charged with re-examining cold cases. The case that he and partner Kizmin Rider first pick up is the 1988 murder of a 16-year-old girl, Rebecca Verloren. A DNA hit on the gun used to commit the murder has yielded the name of Roland Mackey, a low-life hoodlum and white supremacist. Bosch and Rider pursue their investigation, and discover a tangled mystery including an LAPD cover-up that may or may not involve Bosch's old department nemesis, Deputy Chief Irvin Irving.
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After a three-year hiatus from the LAPD, hiatus, Bosch has been re-hired. He has been transferred returned to the LAPD and is assigned to the Open-Unsolved unit and charged with unit, re-examining cold cases. The case that he and partner Kizmin Rider first pick up is the 1988 murder of a 16-year-old girl, Rebecca Verloren. A DNA hit on the gun used to commit the murder has yielded the name of Roland Mackey, a low-life hoodlum and white supremacist. Bosch and Rider pursue their investigation, investigation and discover a tangled mystery including an LAPD cover-up that may or may not involve Bosch's old department nemesis, Deputy Chief Irvin Irving.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Roland Mackey's alibi is that he was being tutored at the time of the Verloren murder. It turns out that his tutor was the murderer.
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* LawOfConservationOfDetail: A whole chapter has Bosch and Rider tailing Roland Mackey after Mackey leaves work, eventually following Mackey to a stalled car that Mackey has been summoned to tow. Guess what? Something important happens.
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* LawOfConservationOfDetail: A whole chapter has Bosch and Rider tailing Roland Mackey after Mackey leaves work, eventually following Mackey to a stalled car that Mackey he has been summoned to tow. Guess what? Something important happens.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Bosch is nauseous after he realizes that his play with the newspaper story led directly to Roland Mackey's death.
* NeverOneMurder: The mystery deepens when Roland Mackey, Bosch's prime suspect, is run down and killed by someone who wanted to silence him.
* NeverOneMurder: The mystery deepens when Roland Mackey, Bosch's prime suspect, is run down and killed by someone who wanted to silence him.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Bosch is nauseous after he realizes that his play with the newspaper story led [[spoiler:led directly to Roland Mackey's death.
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* NeverOneMurder: The mystery deepens whenRoland [[spoiler:Roland Mackey, Bosch's prime suspect, is run down and killed by someone who wanted to silence him.him]].
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* TeacherStudentRomance: One of these, one with a very dark ending, is the solution to the mystery.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: One [[spoiler:One of these, one with a very dark ending, is the solution to the mystery.]]
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* RevisitingTheColdCase: Now Harry Bosch's full-time job in the Open-Unsolved unit. His first case is the long-unsolved murder of a 16-year-old girl, which the unit seizes on after they get a DNA hit.
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* ContinuityNod: Bosch and Rider pay a visit to Thelma Kibble, parole officer and character from non-Bosch novel ''Literature/VoidMoon''. Bosch sees a picture of ''Void Moon'' protagonist Cassie Black in Kibble's office and realizes that he met year a year before, in ''Literature/TheNarrows''.
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* ContinuityNod: Bosch and Rider pay a visit to Thelma Kibble, parole officer and character from non-Bosch novel ''Literature/VoidMoon''. Bosch sees a picture of ''Void Moon'' protagonist Cassie Black in Kibble's office and realizes that he met year her a year before, in ''Literature/TheNarrows''.
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* ShrineToTheFallen: Rebecca Verloren's mother has left her room untouched, other than dusting, since her daughter's death. This eventually proves crucial to the climax as Bosch discovers a vital clue, a fingerprint, on the floorboards of Rebecca's bed.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The chief of police, who is personally responsible for re-hiring Harry Bosch.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Bosch is nauseous after he realizes that his play with the newspaper story led directly to Roland Mackey's death.
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* FriendsWithBenefits: Bosch has a night of casual sex with LAPD makeup artist Vicki Landreth.
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* NeverOneMurder: The mystery deepens when Roland Mackey, Bosch's prime suspect, is run down and killed by someone who wanted to silence him.
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* MuggingTheMonster: In ''The Closers'', two homeless men attempt this on Bosch. One of them sees the look in Harry's eyes and backs down before it can end very badly.
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* ContinuityNod: Bosch and Rider pay a visit to Thelma Kibble, parole officer and character from non-Bosch novel ''Literature/VoidMoon''. Bosch sees a picture of ''Void Moon'' protagonist Cassie Black in Kibble's office and realizes that he met year a year before, in ''Literature/TheNarrows''.
* MuggingTheMonster:In ''The Closers'', two Two homeless men attempt this on Bosch. One of them sees the look in Harry's eyes and backs down before it can end very badly.
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* RealPersonCameo: Rick Jackson and Tim Marcia, two real LAPD cops who apparently serve as advisors to Michael Connelly, appear in this book as cops working with Harry Bosch.
* ShoutOut: Rider says that Creator/JamesEllroy picked out the crime scene photos that decorate the walls in the Open-Unsolved office.
* ShoutOut: Rider says that Creator/JamesEllroy picked out the crime scene photos that decorate the walls in the Open-Unsolved office.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Well, three years. But after finding life as a PI unsatisfactory over novels ''Literature/LostLight'' and ''Literature/TheNarrows'', Bosch is back on the job with the LAPD.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Well, three years. But after finding life as a PI unsatisfactory over novels ''Literature/LostLight'' and ''Literature/TheNarrows'', Bosch is back on the job with the LAPD.LAPD.
* TitleDrop: Pratt calls Open-Unsolved "the closers" because their mission is to close old cases.
* TitleDrop: Pratt calls Open-Unsolved "the closers" because their mission is to close old cases.
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After a three-year hiatus from the LAPD, Bosch has been re-hired. He has been transferred to the Open-Unsolved unit and charged with re-examining cold cases. The case that he and partner Kizmin Rider first pick up is the 1988 murder of a 16-year-old girl, Rebecca Verloren. A DNA hit on the gun used to commit the murder has yielded the name of Roland Mackey, a low-life hoodlum and white supremacist. Bosch and Rider pursue their investigation, and discover a tangled mystery including an LAPD cover-up that may or may not involve Bosch's old department nemesis, Deputy Chief Irvin Irving.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Roland Mackey's alibi is that he was being tutored at the time of the Verloren murder. It turns out that his tutor was the murderer.
* NoNameGiven: As is tradition for Harry Bosch novels, the chief of police goes unnamed. Even in this novel, when the chief takes a personal interest in Bosch and is responsible for him getting his job back.
* TeacherStudentRomance: One of these, one with a very dark ending, is the solution to the mystery.
* TenMinuteRetirement: Well, three years. But after finding life as a PI unsatisfactory over novels ''Literature/LostLight'' and ''Literature/TheNarrows'', Bosch is back on the job with the LAPD.
