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| Author | Michael Connelly |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Harry Bosch |
| Release number | 5 |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
| Publication date | January 28, 1997 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages | 383 pp. |
| ISBN | 0-316-15244-7 |
| OCLC | 34690895 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 20 |
| LC Class | PS3553.O51165 T78 1997 |
| Preceded by | The Last Coyote |
| Followed by | Angels Flight |
Trunk Music is the sixth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly,[1] and the fifth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch.
Synopsis
[edit]In his first case since he transferred to Homicide, Connelly's character Bosch investigates a body found in the trunk of a Rolls-Royce near the Hollywood Bowl. The death seems to have connections to the Mafia in Las Vegas.
After the victim's name and address are discovered, Bosch and one of his teammates interview his wife. Bosch searches a small office where the victim maintained a small studio facility. He examines the surveillance video of the entrance to the office, which shows that the office had been broken into and that phone bugs were removed. The team later finds out that a branch of LAPD had placed bugs on the victim's phone without authorization.
Bosch is sent to Las Vegas to track down what the victim was doing there and who had contact with him there. He sees video of a poker game the victim was in, and recognizes one of the other players as a former FBI agent, Eleanor Wish, with whom he once had an intimate relationship. Bosch spends the night with her. Later, she is brought into police headquarters, but Bosch clears her. Fingerprints from the murder victim's leather jacket match those of Luke "Lucky" Goshen, top aide to the Las Vegas mob boss Joseph "Marks" Marconi. In a search of Goshen's home, Bosch finds a hidden handgun. It is determined that the handgun was the murder weapon.
Wish is kidnapped by the local syndicate. Bosch finds out where she is held and frees her. Bosch extradites Goshen; however, on arrival in Los Angeles, Bosch learns that Goshen was an undercover FBI agent whose real name is Roy Lindell, and that the FBI suspects Bosch of planting the gun found at the home of the Goshen/Lindell home.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Fiction book review: Trunk Music by Michael Connelly". Publishers Weekly. February 2, 1997. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
