Trunk Music (Harry Bosch #5), by Michael Connelly
Trunk Music by Michael Connelly » “Still the same old Bosch. Your way or the highway.” « In this instalment, Bosch is back from his involuntary leave and investigates a case of the eponymous “trunk music” - a murdered man in the trunk of his own car. Bosch himself is pretty much as he always was but around him, things changed: His lieutenant, Pounds, is on another kind of involuntary and permanent “leave” and was replaced by Grace Billets. Bosch: » I’d heard that you didn’t have any actual time on a homicide table while you were coming up,” he said to her. Billets: “That’s true. My only job as an actual detective was working sexual crimes in Valley Bureau.” Bosch: “Well, for what it’s worth, I would have assigned things just the way you just did.” Billets: “But did it annoy you that I did it instead of you?” Bosch thought a moment. Bosch: “I’ll get over it.” « I liked this exchange - which is indicative of their entire relationship in this book - because, yes, he’s still “sa...