Justice is like a blonde in concrete, can't see you, can't feel you, won't pay attention to you. Los Angeles is that virtue.
—Michael Connelly, The Blonde in Concrete
Michael Cornelly: A well-known contemporary American writer.
Winner of 16 international mystery awards, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Diamond Dagger Award, the Anthony Award, the McAveti Award, and the Shams Prize, he was the president of the Mystery Writers Association of America. Topped the New York Times bestseller list several times, the work was loved by readers in more than 48 countries, and sold more than 74 million copies worldwide.
So far, he has created more than 30 novels, including "The Poet", "Blonde girl in the concrete", "Blood Puzzle" and so on.
Los Angeles.
Eleven women were killed
The faces of the deceased were covered with eerie makeup.
The murderer is known as the "puppeteer".
Detective Harry Bosch encounters a prostitute on duty who has just escaped from a man's men, and Bos has no time to contact his backup and rushes into the man's apartment. Ignoring the detective's warning, the man Church put his hand under the pillow, Bos shot him dead on the spot, and found cosmetics that matched the faces of each victim at the scene, and the case was solved.
Four years later, Church's widow took Bosch to court, saying he had killed the wrong person.
On the other side, the front desk of the police station received a note informing Detective Bose that a body was buried in the cement floor of the abandoned billiard hall. The corpse was a woman, petite in stature, with shoulder-length hair dyed blonde, and her face was stained with the powder of cosmetics. The female corpse fit all the characteristics of the puppeteer's case, only four years had passed since puppeteer Church had been killed.
Standing in court, Bos believed in his judgment, although there were only 9 victims' cosmetics in Church's booty. A man presents the firmest evidence of the night the eleventh victim was killed, Church spent a night in full view of everyone.
Did Harry Boss really kill the wrong person that year?
Did the police cover up anything in order to solve the case?
Where are the cosmetics for the remaining two people?
Who killed the blonde in the concrete?
Who is a puppeteer?
In Blonde in Concrete, author Michael Cornelly named Hieronymis Bosch as the protagonist and explains, "Bosch's paintings are like contemporary Los Angeles, and my Boss is drifting in this hellish place." ”
(Paradise on Earth is a masterpiece by Jeronimis Bosch, depicting the descent of humanity from heaven to earth to hell.) ）
How can people who are shrouded in darkness avoid becoming part of the darkness?