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Connelly, Michael : City Of Bones: A Harry Bosch Novel

Little, Brown & Company, New York City, NY, 2002

ISBN 0316154059

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 394 pages. The author's eleventh novel. One of Michael Connelly's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Michael Connelly's "City of Bones: A Harry Bosch Novel". As dark and angst-ridden as any of Bosch's past outings. "It also crackles with energy especially in the details of police procedure and internal politics that animate virtually every page. What other crime writer could make such dramatic use of the fact that the front door of a house trailer swings out rather than in, creating problems for a two-man team of detectives? Who else would create to such credible narrative effect an egotistic celebrity-coroner who jeopardizes an investigation because she lets a TV camera crew from Court TV follow her around or an over-aged female rookie cop so in love with danger that she commits an unthinkable act? When the bones of an abused 12-year-old boy who disappeared in 1980 turn up in the woods above Hollywood, the case stirs up Bosch's memories of his own troubled childhood. Connelly is such a careful, quiet writer that he can slow down the story to sketch in some relatively minor characters without missing a beat" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Connelly collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Michael Connelly. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American novelists in the crime thriller genre of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MICHAEL CONNELLY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0316154059.

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