

The Price case is temporarily stalled when George Irving falls from a balcony at the Chateau Marmont hotel. Chill's abuse of Clayton makes him the primary suspect in the Lily Price case, as Clayton's blood was likely transferred when he was beaten with the same murder weapon. In the meeting with Bosch and Chu, he reveals that he was abused and brutally beaten by a man named Chill, who was dating his mother when he was eight years old, around the time of Lily Price's murder.

He and Hannah become romantically involved, which pleases Bosch's daughter Maddie, who has been living with Bosch since her mother's death.Ĭlayton agrees to an interview. At first Bosch is skeptical of Hannah’s commitment to helping people he finds reprehensible, but he soon realizes that her work is important not only for the offenders, but for victims and their families. At the halfway house, they also meet psychologist Hannah Stone, who is working on a rehabilitation program to reduce the rates of recidivism and reoffense among the house’s residents.

Clayton lives in a halfway house for sexual offenders, and Bosch and Chu find him there. Although the two investigators decide that their narrative featuring Clayton as the killer is unlikely, they investigate anyway to see if Clayton can lead them to a new suspect. Bosch and Chu are thrilled until they discover that Clayton Pell was only eight years old at the time of Lily's murder. Detective Bosch and his partner David Chu are working in the Open-Unsolved Unit of the LAPD, and new evidence appears in the Lily Price case involving traces of blood found on the belt linked to Clayton Pell, a child-abuser who was recently released on parole. The Drop begins with the reopening of a cold case involving the death of Lily Price, a college student who was strangled to death in 1989. Published in 2011, The Drop was followed by four other novels in the Harry Bosch series, including The Black Box (2012), The Burning Room (2014), The Crossing (2015), and The Wrong Side of Goodbye (2016). The first is a cold case involving the 1989 murder of a girl named Lily Price the second is the death of George Irving, the son of Bosch's nemesis Irvin Irving, who fell from a hotel balcony to his death.

In The Drop, Detective Bosch is trying to solve two crimes. The Drop is the twenty-fourth book by detective and crime novelist Michael Connelly, and the fifteenth book in his series following Detective Harry Bosch of the Los Angeles Police Department.
