#56 in Crime & mystery
The Closers
- 310
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Closers” puts Harry Bosch back in police work, and the story moves along at a steady clip. After two novels set during his retirement and told in the first person, Connelly goes back to third-person narration. Some readers welcome the return to the force. As the eleventh book about him, it is aimed first at those already following the series.
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About the book
The Closers is the 15th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the 11th featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. This novel features a return to an omniscient third-person style narration after the previous two, set during Bosch's retirement, were narrated in from a first-person perspective.
Reading order · Harry Bosch
Full order & progress →- The Black EchoStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - The Black Ice
7.77.7 / 10 - The Concrete Blonde
8.08.0 / 10 - The Last Coyote
8.08.0 / 10 - Trunk Music
7.97.9 / 10 - Angels Flight
7.97.9 / 10 - A Darkness More Than Night
7.77.7 / 10 - City of Bones
7.87.8 / 10 - Lost Light
7.97.9 / 10 - The Narrows
7.87.8 / 10 - The ClosersThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - Echo Park
7.97.9 / 10 - The Overlook
7.77.7 / 10 - Nine Dragons
7.77.7 / 10 - The Drop
7.97.9 / 10 - The Black Box
7.87.8 / 10 - The Burning Room
7.87.8 / 10 - The Crossing
8.08.0 / 10 - The Wrong Side of Goodbye
7.97.9 / 10 - Two Kinds of Truth
7.97.9 / 10 - Dark Sacred Night
7.97.9 / 10 - The Night Fire
8.08.0 / 10 - The Dark Hours
7.87.8 / 10 - Desert Star
7.97.9 / 10 - The waiting
7.77.7 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 118 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 45% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 118 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Closers?
It has 310 pages — shorter than 82% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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