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小说《火焰密室》由美国著名侦探小说家迈克尔·康奈利撰写。迈克尔·康奈利1956年出生于美国费城，因受父母影响，自幼就对侦探悬疑事物表现出浓厚的兴趣。

小说《火焰密室》主要讲述的是哈里·博斯警探与助手索托对一起悬案的调查以及调查过程中引出的其他一系列谜团。哈里·博斯警探供职于洛杉矶警局重案组，此次，他从警探罗哈斯和罗德里格斯手中接手了一起棘手的案件。十年前，一位名叫奥兰多·默塞德的街头艺人在墨西哥流浪乐队广场上遭到枪击并造成了终生瘫痪，由于当时没有查出有力证据，警方最终对外宣称默塞德是被广场附近黑帮成员射出的流弹击中，他只是一名无辜受害者。直到十年后，默塞德因枪击的并发症去世，警方从他体内取出了当年的子弹，博斯突然意识到此案并非如他们当年所想，因为子弹属于一把猎枪，也就是说默塞德根本就是被故意射伤的。有了这一重要线索，博斯继续深入调查，然而他却因此发现了洛杉矶权势人物的重大秘密。与此同时，索托开始表现出奇怪举动，又一谜案浮出水面。

翻译所选章节为小说6至8章，第6章主要讲述罗德里格斯警探和罗哈斯警探早前对案件的调查记录以及博斯对此案监控资料的回顾，第7章描写了市长发布悬赏通告后发生的一系列事情，在这一章节，出现了较多对话，不同人物均被刻画得生动形象。第8章中，博斯和索托对案发地及附近进行了进一步调查与研究。 

INTRODUCTION

The Burning Room is written by outstanding American detective novelist Michael Connelly. Michael Connelly was born in Philadelphia in 1956. With parents’ impact, he became interested in crime and mystery at an early age. 

This book describes Detective Bosch and his assistant Soto’s investigation process of an unsolved case and a series of things it leads to. Bosch works for RHD's Open-Unsolved Unit. This time, he takes over an unsolved case from Detective Rojas and Rodriguez. Ten years ago, a music performer named Orlando Merced was shot in the crowded Mariachi Plaza and became paralyzed since then. At first, the police consider it as a random shoot made by the gang nearby. With Merced dying from complications 10 years later and they get the bullet removed from his body at last, Bosch realizes Merced was shot by a hunting rifle which means it was an act on purpose and their original consideration is wrong. With the new clue, Bosch finds he is led to another great big secret has something to do with the most powerful men of the city. Meanwhile, Soto begins to have strange behavior and another unsolved case comes to Bosch.

The part translated is from chapter 6 to chapter 8. Chapter 6 mainly tells Detective Rojas and Rodriguez’s former investigation on this case and Bosch’s review on the tapes taken near the plaza. Chapter 7 describes the things happened after the mayor announced a reward for the case. This chapter is made up of many dialogues among the characters. In chapter 8, Bosch and his assistant are investigating the case by visiting the plaza and the hotel.