The best-selling author of the acclaimed Harry Bosch detective series (and upcoming Amazon Prime television series Bosch) talks to us about his and what you should be reading.Part of a series.

What one book should every man read?

To Kill a Mockingbird instills a bedrock sense of fairness and sacrifice, which I think are the important things to have.

If you could have a drink with any writer (living or dead), who would it be, where would you go, what would you order, and what would you talk about?

Raymond Chandler at the bar at Musso and Frank's Grill on Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles. I would have a vodka martini, he a gimlet. I'd ask him the big question: Can a writer be happy?

Men need guidance. What's the most valuable lesson you've learned from a book?

The lesson that less is more comes from Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea. That goes for life and in writing. The more you talk the less you say.

What book were you surprised you loved? What book were you surprised you hated? And what book are you most ashamed you've never read?

I loved Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand but didn't expect to. I didn't have an interest in horseracing but in many ways that was not what it was about.

I tried repeatedly to read Moby-Dick and never got through it. After a while I gave up. So I guess that also qualifies as the book I'm ashamed I haven't read. Either that or Gone Girl. I may be the last man standing who hasn't read it yet.

What are you reading next?

Gone Girl.

In no more than 100 words tell us exactly why we should buy your new book right now.

The Burning Room is about passing on what you know to the next generation, which is a noble thing to do if you can find the right person to pass on what you've got. After that it's a pretty tight story exploring many different levels of redemption. And everybody loves a shot at redemption, right? All of this within the framework of a murder investigation—what could go wrong reading that?

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