Re: Bosch rides again

On Jul 10, 2025 at 1:07:13 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:

On 2025-07-10 1:27 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

 On Jul 10, 2025 at 8:22:43 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
wrote:

 

 In the tv series, are the reserve officers working full time on specific
 cases and when the case concludes, they are off duty with no specific
 call up expected?

 
 Haven't watched the show but in the book, they're all volunteers. It's a
cold
 case squad and they each pick a case out of the archives of all the old
 unsolved cases and work on it. They're only required to work one day per
week
 but most come in more often because they're all retirees or people with
 nothing else to do, so they treat it like a full-time job.
 

I'm six episodes into the series and it isn't clear exactly how much
each person works although it certainly appears that all of them are
working full time. Given that there are plenty of cold cases to work, I
can't see how they'd ever have to worry about not having any work to do.
Mind you, the cold case squad in the series is brand new and largely
dedicated to solving a specific cold case - a 25 year old murder of a
city councilman's sister - so there's lot of political pressure on them
to focus on that one case while Ballard and crew are simultaneously
trying to solve others. There are also regular threats to shut down the
unit if it doesn't solve the councilman's sister's case. Obviously, ALL
of their jobs are in jeopardy if that happens.

That's definitely the plot of the book "Desert Star". Although Bosch is also a
main character in the book. Bosch and Ballard are like co-main characters.

She convinces Bosch to join the squad by giving him the opportunity to work on
the one case he was never able to solve-- the murder of an entire family ten
years earlier. All he had to do was prioritize helping her solve the
councilman's case and she'd give him all the time (and official resources) he
wanted to work on his case. Sounds like they axed that part of the book's plot
if Bosch isn't in the show.