The Closers

The world was full of people who could not get over things. There was no closure and there was no peace. The truth did not set you free. But you could get through things. That’s what Bosch would tell him. You could head toward the light and climb and dig and fight your way out of the hole.

Bosch knew the dawn had nothing on the dusk. Dawn always came up ugly, as if the sun was clumsy and in a hurry. The dusk was smoother, the moon more graceful. Maybe it was because the moon was more patient. In life and nature, Bosch thought, darkness always waits.

Darkness waits. But it comes no matter what you do.

Maybe nothing could help him now. But he needed to tell him anyway. The world was full of people who could not get over things. There was no closure and there was no peace. The truth did not set you free. But you could get through things. That’s what Bosch would tell him. You could head toward the light and climb and dig and fight your way out of the hole.

Nobody should grow old.” “And everybody should get the chance.

They were going through the Cahuenga Pass. Bosch looked out his window and up the hillside, searching for his house nestled in among the others in the folds of the mountain. He thought he saw a glimpse of the back deck sticking out over the brown brush.

responsible by an electorate that wouldn’t

It was the kind of phone booth you only saw in old movies and at the Farmers Market or over at Phillippe’s.

Mel Gibson saved a lot of lives. All those sideways shooters, they couldn’t hit shit. We ought to make him like an honorary cop or something.

Vision to See Faith to Believe Courage to Do

The city shimmered out there like a million dreams, not all of them good.

the future sparkled in front of them like an ocean.

He urged the new officers never to break the law to enforce the law. To do their job constitutionally and compassionately at all times.

Farmers Market, one of his favorite places in the city.

famous cases like the Black Dahlia, Charles Manson, and the Dollmaker crimes.

Success makes a lot of bad shit go away. So

the only possible way to make yogurt taste worse was to put kiwi into it.

you know, someone she was not really in a relationship with?” “You mean like a one-night stand? Is that what

closers. So let’s close this one out.” Bosch and Rider stood