How long does it take to read The Drop?
The Drop by Michael Connelly takes about 7 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 15 of Harry Bosch
Previous: The Reversal Next: The Black Box
About 7 hours 7 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2011. 388 pages, about 106,700 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, Detective Harry Bosch wants cases more fiercely than ever - and in one morning he gets two. DNA from the 1989 murder matches that of a twenty-nine-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer, or has something gone terribly wrong in the Regional Crime Lab? When a city councilman's son jumps - or is dropped - from a window at the Charteau Marmont, Bosch is called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Bosch's old nemesis, the councilman demands that Bosch handle the investigation. Now relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries, a sadistic killer has been operating unknown in the city for more than two decades - and a political conspiracy threatens to reveal the dark history of the police department itself.
Subjects: Police, Harry Bosch (Fictitious character), Political corruption, Serial murderers, Cold cases (Criminal investigation), Fiction
