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The Burning Room by Michael Connelly

 I am still working on Layla  by Colleen Hoover, but I was eyeing one of my bookshelves and something about The Burning Room by Michael Connelly caught my eye.  It's been awhile since I had read one of the Harry Bosch novels. I got this one years ago on the sale tables at Books-a-Million, and then it went on to the shelf to languish.  I really enjoyed the story, and had forgotten that I liked the Bosch character quite a bit. At this point in his career, Bosch is closing in on his last year with the LAPD and is working in the Open-Unsolved Unit. A case from many years before turns from a shooting to a murder when the man who had been hit by a bullet so long ago eventually dies. Bosch has a new, younger partner, who he is skeptical of at first, but comes to enjoy working with. The book ends up focusing on two different cases, which evolves in to three of four different cases that may have some commonalities, but still flows well. I thought the cases wrapped up rather ...