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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Bosch accepting an early retirement in the interim since the last book. While Bosch may have been able to win the suspension charges, fighting it would have cost at least 6 months of time and left him with no income (especially relevant as his Maddie was about to begin college). Since he had less than a year left anyway, it was more pragmatic to just throw in the towel and be able to access his pension early. That being said, the LAPD ''did'' contrive to force him out on a minor, trumped up infraction and so Bosch has engaged Haller's services to pursue a wrongful termination lawsuit.
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** Detective Nancy Mendenhall, the Internal Affairs cop who saved Harry's life in ''Literature/TheBlackBox'', returns, this time investigating Ellis and Long. She winds up saving Harry's life again.
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* SouthOfTheBorder: At some point, it's believed Ellis plans to flee to Mexico and will probably be there already by the time the police starts chasing him. Subverted because he puts revenge against Bosch above escaping and intends to flee to Belize.
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* SouthOfTheBorder: At some point, it's believed Ellis plans to flee to Mexico and will probably be there already by the time the police starts start chasing him. Subverted because he puts revenge against Bosch above escaping and intends to flee to Belize.
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* HotPaintJob: Cisco rides a motorcycle with flames painted on the gas tank. In this book, after he's injured in an accident engineered by Ellis and Long, he paints flames ''on his cane''.
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* DirtyCop: Ellis and Long, the vice cops. They have a wide range of criminal activities that run the gamut from blackmail to pimping to murder.
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* KillerCop: Ellis and Long, the vice cops. They have a wide range of criminal activities that run the gamut from blackmail to pimping to murder. They killed Alexandra Parks, and they joke about their high body count.
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** Detective Nancy Mendenhall, the Internal Affairs cop who saved Harry's life in ''Literature/TheBlackBox'', returns, this time investigating Ellis and Long. She winds up saving Harry's life again.
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* InternalAffairs: Detective Mendenhall from IAD pops up again, this time not investigating Bosch--he isn't a cop anymore--but investigating Ellis and Long.
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* {{Irony}}: After ''years'' (all the way back to ''Literature/LostLight'' if not longer) of sporadic concerns about having a tracker put on his car, NiceJobFixingItVillain: Harry finally buys a detector/jammer. Only goes to Las Vegas to track down the watch, only to find out later he was being tracked by drone.that Parks had reported it stolen. He is inclined to write off the watch as a dead end, with its absence from the crime scene explained. But then Ellis and Long murder the jewelers who sold the watch, causing Harry to zero in on them and unravel the whole mystery.
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** Another appearance of Carmen Hinojos, the psychiatrist working with the LAPD who gives Harry Bosch therapy in ''Literature/LostLight'' and does the same for Harry's daughter Madeline in ''Literature/NineDragons''.
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** Another appearance of Carmen Hinojos, the psychiatrist working with the LAPD who gives Harry Bosch therapy in ''Literature/LostLight'' ''Literature/TheLastCoyote'' and does the same for Harry's daughter Madeline in ''Literature/NineDragons''.
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* RealPersonCameo: One of several Connelly novels to feature Tim Marcia, a RealLife LAPD cop who helps Michael Connelly with research, as a minor character.
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* ShoutOut: Harry goes to the Hollywood Forever cemetery as part of his investigation (they have security cameras). He stops at the grave of Creator/MelBlanc and reads the inscription on Blanc's tombstone: "[[BlackComedy That's all, folks]]."
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Bosch is now a former LAPD detective, having been forced into retirement at the end of ''The Burning Room''. Bosch is at loose ends when his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, offers Harry some work. Haller has a client named [=DaQuan=] Foster who has been arrested for the brutal rape and murder of West Hollywood resident Alexandra Parks. Haller thinks Foster was set up and begs Harry to take the case. Bosch is reluctant, as he spent his whole life putting killers in jail, but after Haller promises he can take the truth wherever it leads, Harry takes the case. He winds up following the evidence to two Hollywood LAPD cops, Ellis and Long, who have been leaving a trail of bodies all over Los Angeles.
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Bosch is now a former LAPD detective, having been forced into retirement at the end of ''The Burning Room''. Bosch is at loose ends when his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, Literature/MickeyHaller, offers Harry some work. Haller has a client named [=DaQuan=] Foster who has been arrested for the brutal rape and murder of West Hollywood resident Alexandra Parks. Haller thinks Foster was set up and begs Harry to take the case. Bosch is reluctant, as he spent his whole life putting killers in jail, but after Haller promises he can take the truth wherever it leads, Harry takes the case. He winds up following the evidence to two Hollywood LAPD cops, Ellis and Long, who have been leaving a trail of bodies all over Los Angeles.
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''The Crossing'' is a 2015 crime novel by Creator/MichaelConnelly.
Harry Bosch, Connelly's most frequent protagonist, is now a former LAPD detective, having been forced into retirement at the end of ''The Burning Room''. Bosch is at loose ends when his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, offers Harry some work. Haller has a client named [=DaQuan=] Foster who has been arrested for the brutal rape and murder of West Hollywood resident Alexandra Parks. Haller thinks Foster was set up and begs Harry to take the case. Bosch is reluctant, as he spent his whole life putting killers in jail, but after Haller promises he can take the truth wherever it leads, Harry takes the case. He winds up following the evidence to two Hollywood LAPD cops, Ellis and Long, who have been leaving a trail of bodies all over Los Angeles.
Harry Bosch, Connelly's most frequent protagonist, is now a former LAPD detective, having been forced into retirement at the end of ''The Burning Room''. Bosch is at loose ends when his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, offers Harry some work. Haller has a client named [=DaQuan=] Foster who has been arrested for the brutal rape and murder of West Hollywood resident Alexandra Parks. Haller thinks Foster was set up and begs Harry to take the case. Bosch is reluctant, as he spent his whole life putting killers in jail, but after Haller promises he can take the truth wherever it leads, Harry takes the case. He winds up following the evidence to two Hollywood LAPD cops, Ellis and Long, who have been leaving a trail of bodies all over Los Angeles.
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''The Crossing'' is a 2015 crime novel by Creator/MichaelConnelly.
Harry Bosch,Creator/MichaelConnelly featuring Literature/HarryBosch, Connelly's most frequent protagonist, protagonist.
Bosch is now a former LAPD detective, having been forced into retirement at the end of ''The Burning Room''. Bosch is at loose ends when his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, offers Harry some work. Haller has a client named [=DaQuan=] Foster who has been arrested for the brutal rape and murder of West Hollywood resident Alexandra Parks. Haller thinks Foster was set up and begs Harry to take the case. Bosch is reluctant, as he spent his whole life putting killers in jail, but after Haller promises he can take the truth wherever it leads, Harry takes the case. He winds up following the evidence to two Hollywood LAPD cops, Ellis and Long, who have been leaving a trail of bodies all over Los Angeles.
Harry Bosch,
Bosch is now a former LAPD detective, having been forced into retirement at the end of ''The Burning Room''. Bosch is at loose ends when his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, offers Harry some work. Haller has a client named [=DaQuan=] Foster who has been arrested for the brutal rape and murder of West Hollywood resident Alexandra Parks. Haller thinks Foster was set up and begs Harry to take the case. Bosch is reluctant, as he spent his whole life putting killers in jail, but after Haller promises he can take the truth wherever it leads, Harry takes the case. He winds up following the evidence to two Hollywood LAPD cops, Ellis and Long, who have been leaving a trail of bodies all over Los Angeles.
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* TheGamblingAddict: The surgeon being blackmailed needs to use underhanded means to pay the blackmailers because his gambling addiction prompted his wife to keep a tight hold on his money.
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** One of the bad guys implies to the other that Bosch's house is nicer than one might expect on a cop's salary. Earlier novels had established that a movie had been made out of one of Bosch's cases, and he got a big check which he used to buy his cantilevered house in the Hollywood Hills.
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* BulletproofHumanShield: As he is fleeing from the plastic surgeon's office, Ellis grabs Long and yanks Long in front of himself to use as a shield. It works, as Long takes a couple of bullets in his bulletproof vest as well as one in the hip.
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Harry Bosch, Connelly's most frequent protagonist, is now a former LAPD detective, having been forced into retirement at the end of ''The Burning Room''. Bosch is at loose ends when his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, offers Harry some work. Haller has a client named [=DaQuan=] Foster who has been arrested for the brutal rape and murder of West Hollywood resident Alexandra Parks. Haller thinks Foster was set up and begs Harry to take the case. Bosch is reluctant, as he spent his whole life putting killers in jail, but after Haller promises he can take the truth wherever it leads, Harry takes the case.
He winds up following the evidence to two Hollywood LAPD cops, Ellis and Long, who have been leaving a trail of bodies all over Los Angeles.
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Harry Bosch, Connelly's most frequent protagonist, is now a former LAPD detective, having been forced into retirement at the end of ''The Burning Room''. Bosch is at loose ends when his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, offers Harry some work. Haller has a client named [=DaQuan=] Foster who has been arrested for the brutal rape and murder of West Hollywood resident Alexandra Parks. Haller thinks Foster was set up and begs Harry to take the case. Bosch is reluctant, as he spent his whole life putting killers in jail, but after Haller promises he can take the truth wherever it leads, Harry takes the case.
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* ClearMyName: [=DaQuan=] Foster didn't do it.
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** Mickey Haller wants to hire Harry Bosch as a private investigator and Harry says Mickey is "not the first one to ask". Another criminal defense attorney asked it in ''Lost Light''.
** Bosch visits the VA Hospital and remembers having once gone there after suffering a gunshot wound. This is a reference to events in the first Bosch novel, ''Literature/TheBlackEcho''.
* CuffsOffRubWrists: Bosch's hands are numb after he's left in an LAPD interview room for three hours.
* DirtyCop: Ellis and Long, the vice cops. They have a wide range of criminal activities that run the gamut from blackmail to pimping to murder.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: "The crossing" is a cop term for when perp and victim meet. Harry Bosch is crossing over to the defense side of criminal justice.
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** Mickey Haller wants to hire Harry Bosch as a private investigator and Harry says Mickey is "not the first one to ask". Another criminal defense attorney asked it in ''Lost Light''.
** Bosch visits the VA Hospital and remembers having once gone there after suffering a gunshot wound. This is a reference to events in the first Bosch novel, ''Literature/TheBlackEcho''.
* CuffsOffRubWrists: Bosch's hands are numb after he's left in an LAPD interview room for three hours.
* DirtyCop: Ellis and Long, the vice cops. They have a wide range of criminal activities that run the gamut from blackmail to pimping to murder.
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''The Crossing'' is a 2015 crime novel by Creator/MichaelConnelly.
Harry Bosch, Connelly's most frequent protagonist, is now a former LAPD detective, having been forced into retirement at the end of ''The Burning Room''. Bosch is at loose ends when his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, offers Harry some work. Haller has a client named [=DaQuan=] Foster who has been arrested for the brutal rape and murder of West Hollywood resident Alexandra Parks. Haller thinks Foster was set up and begs Harry to take the case. Bosch is reluctant, as he spent his whole life putting killers in jail, but after Haller promises he can take the truth wherever it leads, Harry takes the case.
He winds up following the evidence to two Hollywood LAPD cops, Ellis and Long, who have been leaving a trail of bodies all over Los Angeles.
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* {{Blackmail}}: A plastic surgeon becomes a victim of this after sleeping with a patient.
* ILoveTheDead: Implied with Ellis, the main villain. In the rape-murder that is the central mystery, the rape was post-mortem. And towards the end when Ellis kills the porn girls, he takes pictures after, and feels disappointed that they don't look all that dead due to their extensive facial plastic surgery.
* TheGamblingAddict: The surgeon being blackmailed needs to use underhanded means to pay the blackmailers because his gambling addiction prompted his wife to keep a tight hold on his money.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Bosch describes "the state's former governor, cigar clenched in his teeth," who "had been a movie star"...in other words, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger. Bosch doesn't like him.
* NoTellMotel: The Haven House is described as a "hot-sheet motel." It is where male prostitute James Allen met [=DaQuan=] Foster and where he was later murdered.
* PinkMist: "Bosch felt a fine mist of blood hit him full in the face" after Mendenhall puts a round through the skull of the villain, Ellis.
* ThePardon: Not exactly a pardon but a former Governor uses his last days in office to reduce the punishment of a close associate. Bosch is among those who make a point to remember that fact and hold it against him.
* ReverseWhodunnit: It's pretty much clear from the start that Ellis and Long are the bad guys, especially since the book starts with them deliberately attacking Cisco. The mystery lies in how Harry Bosch tracks them down.
* {{Sexiled}}: The two porn girls that Ellis and Long are running sometimes entertain johns at their apartment. They put a stuffed bear in the window as a signal to not come in. Not played for comedy, as the girls are essentially sex slaves.
* SouthOfTheBorder: At some point, it's believed Ellis plans to flee to Mexico and will probably be there already by the time the police starts chasing him. Subverted because he puts revenge against Bosch above escaping and intends to flee to Belize.
* VillainOpeningScene: The first chapter has Ellis and Long arranging a traffic "accident" that puts Cisco, Mickey Haller's investigator, out of commission.
Harry Bosch, Connelly's most frequent protagonist, is now a former LAPD detective, having been forced into retirement at the end of ''The Burning Room''. Bosch is at loose ends when his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, offers Harry some work. Haller has a client named [=DaQuan=] Foster who has been arrested for the brutal rape and murder of West Hollywood resident Alexandra Parks. Haller thinks Foster was set up and begs Harry to take the case. Bosch is reluctant, as he spent his whole life putting killers in jail, but after Haller promises he can take the truth wherever it leads, Harry takes the case.
He winds up following the evidence to two Hollywood LAPD cops, Ellis and Long, who have been leaving a trail of bodies all over Los Angeles.
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* {{Blackmail}}: A plastic surgeon becomes a victim of this after sleeping with a patient.
* ILoveTheDead: Implied with Ellis, the main villain. In the rape-murder that is the central mystery, the rape was post-mortem. And towards the end when Ellis kills the porn girls, he takes pictures after, and feels disappointed that they don't look all that dead due to their extensive facial plastic surgery.
* TheGamblingAddict: The surgeon being blackmailed needs to use underhanded means to pay the blackmailers because his gambling addiction prompted his wife to keep a tight hold on his money.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Bosch describes "the state's former governor, cigar clenched in his teeth," who "had been a movie star"...in other words, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger. Bosch doesn't like him.
* NoTellMotel: The Haven House is described as a "hot-sheet motel." It is where male prostitute James Allen met [=DaQuan=] Foster and where he was later murdered.
* PinkMist: "Bosch felt a fine mist of blood hit him full in the face" after Mendenhall puts a round through the skull of the villain, Ellis.
* ThePardon: Not exactly a pardon but a former Governor uses his last days in office to reduce the punishment of a close associate. Bosch is among those who make a point to remember that fact and hold it against him.
* ReverseWhodunnit: It's pretty much clear from the start that Ellis and Long are the bad guys, especially since the book starts with them deliberately attacking Cisco. The mystery lies in how Harry Bosch tracks them down.
* {{Sexiled}}: The two porn girls that Ellis and Long are running sometimes entertain johns at their apartment. They put a stuffed bear in the window as a signal to not come in. Not played for comedy, as the girls are essentially sex slaves.
* SouthOfTheBorder: At some point, it's believed Ellis plans to flee to Mexico and will probably be there already by the time the police starts chasing him. Subverted because he puts revenge against Bosch above escaping and intends to flee to Belize.
* VillainOpeningScene: The first chapter has Ellis and Long arranging a traffic "accident" that puts Cisco, Mickey Haller's investigator, out of commission.
