“The LAPD, like most police departments, is a male-dominated bureaucrac...” — Michael Connelly Quote

“The LAPD, like most police departments, is a male-dominated bureaucracy. A woman faces a lot of pushback.”

“Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.”

“BOSCH DID NOT BEGIN TO FEEL WHOLE again until he reached the smogged outskirts of L.A. He was back in the nastiness again but he knew that it was here that he would heal. He skirted downtown on the freeway and headed up through Cahuenga Pass. Midday traffic was light. Looking up at the hills he saw the charred path of the Christmas-night fire. But he even took some comfort in that. He knew that the heat of the fire would have cracked open the seeds of the wildflowers and by spring the hillside would be a riot of colors. The chaparral would follow and soon there would be no scar on the land at all.”