Win! Win! Win! For all you crime/suspense fans, Jonathan Ball Publishers is giving away two copies of The Closers by crime-writing genius* Michael Connelly. All you have to do to stand a chance of winning is send an email to sharon@litnet.co.za and tell us whether you'd like a LitNet book club.

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The Closers
Michael Connelly
R144,95
ISBN: 0752867849
Orion
Trade Paperback

The Closers is Michael Connelly's 15th book and for the eleventh time stars good guy, detective Harry Bosch, back from retirement and ready for action in the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit. The Closers is a #1 New York Times bestseller and a thrilling read from a master of modern detective fiction.

About the story

After three years out of the LAPD, Harry Bosch returns to find the department a different place from the one he'd left. A new Police Chief has been brought over from New York to give the place a thorough clean-up from top to bottom. Working with his former partner, Kiz Rider, Harry is assigned to the department's Open-Unsolved Unit, working on the thousands of cold cases that haunt the LAPD's files. These detectives are the Closers - they put a shovel in the dirt and turn over the past. By applying new techniques to old evidence they aim to unearth some hidden killers and bring them to justice, for "a city that forgets its murder victims is a city lost". Harry and Kiz are given a politically sensitive case when a DNA match connects a white supremacist to the 1988 murder of Rebecca Verloren, a sixteen-year-old girl. Becky was of mixed race, and the case appears to have a racial angle. This was LA before the riots and Rodney King; the city was a powder keg waiting for a match. The detectives who worked the case all those years ago seem to have done a decent job, but something doesn't fit. Meanwhile Harry's nemesis, Deputy Chief Irving, is watching him. In the new "clean" LAPD Irving has been sidelined to a meaningless job. Compelled by vengeance, he hopes that Harry will make a slip ...

Comments from the critics

"It's terrific, rich not just in suspense (at which Connelly has no superiors) but in the warp and woof of police work, of police bureaucracy, of Los Angeles itself. Every character is convincing ..."
         - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

"The Closers is a powerful book ... The forensics are fascinating, but it's the blood splatter from the LAPD's darkest years that really stain the page."
         - Sherryl Connelly, New York Daily News

But there's more to this book than a good crime thriller ... it has an interactive element as well. Why not visit www.michaelconnelly.com and try your hand at The Closers trivia game. Answer questions like:

What did Harry Bosch see Abel Pratt eating in his office?
donuts
yogurt
hot dogs

and

Where does Harry search for Robert Verloren?
the toy district
Malibu
the university district

There is also a reading guide which might offer some inspiration for book clubs. Just take a look at question one; it's got you trying to figure Harry out already, hasn't it?

1. Welcome Back Roy
In Michael Connelly's novel The Closers, Harry Bosch rejoins the ranks of the LAPD after three years in retirement. Harry has a hard time suppressing his excitement at being back. At one point he says to his partner, Kizmin Rider, "The point is I need the gun. I need the badge. Otherwise I'm out of balance. I need all of this." Why do you think Harry needs to be a cop?

The site is also packed with other features, like synopses of Connelly's other books, excerpts, audio clips, interviews and a message board where you can write to the author.

A copy of the book will cost you R144,95 from kalahari.net and will be delivered within 5 working days. It is a substantial novel at 400 pages, with easy to read print, fleshed-out characters and intriguing plot - and best of all, you'll want to know whodunnit.

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