History Literature / TheDrop

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Irving's long-established ControlFreak tendencies get locked him out of updates from Bosch. This contributes to Bosch following the false trail Kiz set up and his unwitting role in destroying Irving's re-election campaign.]]

* WomanScorned: Irvin Irving is actually referred to as "a man scorned." Dumped by the LAPD, he went into politics and dedicated himself to screwing over the department.

* CelebrityParadox: Bosch's daughter mentions that she's watching ''Series/{{Castle}}''. One must wonder if in the Bosch universe there's still a writer named Michael Connelly who Castle has a regular poker game with, and who his most famous creation is.

* TheBusCameBack: Bosch's old nemesis Irvin Irving returns six years after being forced out of the LAPD at the end of ''Literature/TheClosers''. Irving, who defended the LAPD at all costs when he was in it, is now a city councilman who is a relentless opponent of the police department.

* TheChessmaster: Kiz Rider, who sent a fake report of a drunk taxi driver to Irvin Irving's office in a complicated gambit to tar him with corruption and cost him his re-election to city council.

* DramaticGunCock: "Bosch pulled back the slide on the Glock to chamber a round." Harry is deliberately invoking this trope because the Glock wasn't loaded; he did it to scare Chilton Hardy into telling them where the evidence of his crimes is.

* MurderByInaction: [=McQuillen=] the ex-cop eventually admits that, after barging into George Irving's room, he figured out that George was going to kill himself. Rather than do anything to stop Irving's suicide, he went across the street to a diner that had a security camera and waited there until Irving jumped.
* NeverSuicide: Averted; the guy everyone thought was a suicide at the beginning actually is a suicide.
* NoNameGiven: As always in the Harry Bosch universe, the chief of police. In this one the chief grants Irvin Irving's request to have Harry Bosch assigned to investigate his son's death. And in a first, the chief identifies himself as "Marty" when calling Bosch on the phone. (He is finally named as Chief Martin Maycock in the next Bosch novel, ''Literature/TheBlackBox''.

* WallSlump: An instance of the non-fatal use of this trope to signify shock. Bosch leaans against a wall and then slides to the floor after going through Chilton Hardy's house of horrors and finding a lot of disturbing things (piles of clothing, photographs, a torture room).

* WhatTheHellHero: Bosch gives one to old partner Kizmin Rider, who has sold out to LAPD politics.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Towards the end of the novel, Bosch figures out that Clayton Pell, an abuse victim of depraved SerialKiller Chilton Hardy, is going to murder Hardy. Bosch races across town and saves Hardy from Pell JustInTime. Afterwards, Harry ponders how he could have kept his realization to himself, and how he might have made a great mistake by preventing Pell's vengeance on Hardy.
* WomanScorned: Irvin Irving is actually referred to as "a man scorned." Dumped by the LAPD, he went into politics and dedicated himself to screwing the police department over.

* BadassGrandpa: Bosch is nearly sixty years old and facing mandatory retirement.

* YouJustToldMe: How Madeline bluffs her father into admitting that he had a woman over at the house. Bosch is highly impressed by her deduction and interview skills, and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments tells her so]].

* ShoutOut: Madeline is reading ''Literature/TheStand'' for school.

* YouJustToldMe: How Madeline bluffs her father into admitting that he had a woman over at the house. Bosch is highly impressed by her deduction and interview skills, and [[HeartwarmingMoments tells her so]].

* YouJustToldMe: How Madeline bluffs her father into admitting that he had a woman over at the house.

* NoNameGiven: As always in the Harry Bosch universe, the chief of police. In this one the chief grants Irvin Irving's request to have Harry Bosch assigned to investigate his son's death. And in a first, the chief identifies himself as "Marty" when calling Bosch on the phone.

* GenerationXerox: Harry is impressed by his daughter Madeline's astute observational skills when he shows her security footage from the Chateau Marmont.

* ContinuityNod: One of many references throughout the Connelly canon to fictional motion picture company Archway Studios.

* SerialKiller: Chilton Hardy.

* NoNameGiven: As always in the Harry Bosch universe, the chief of police. In this one the chief grants Irvin Irving's request to have Harry Bosch assigned to investigate his son's death.

Bosch investigates two cases: the apparent suicide of former LAPD Deputy Chief Irvin Irving's son, and a cold case murder that comes back with a very surprising DNA hit.

* TheBusCameBack: Bosch's old nemesis Irvin Irving returns six years after being forced out of the LAPD at the end of ''Literature/TheClosers''.

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