Book description
May 1992, and after four LAPD officers were acquitted after the savage
beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles is ablaze. As looting and burning
take over the city, law and order are swept away in a tidal wave of
violence. But under threat of their lives, homicide detectives like
Harry Bosch are still stubbornly trying to do their job. With no
effective police presence on the streets, murder just got a whole lot
easier - and investigating them got a whole lot harder.
Escorted by national guard soldiers from murder scene to murder scene,
Harry and his colleagues are only able to do the bare minimum in terms
of collecting evidence. And for Harry that's not enough.
When he finds the body of a female journalist executed in an alley, he
cannot accept that he will never be able to bring her killer to justice,
and her tragedy starts to eat into his soul. But then, twenty years
later, Harry finds himself working in the Open Unsolved Unit, and
suddenly the past comes back to haunt him once again, in a way he could
never have imagined. A former police reporter for the LOS ANGELES
TIMES, Michael Connelly is the author of the Harry Bosch thriller series
as well as several stand-alone bestsellers, including the highly
acclaimed legal thriller, THE LINCOLN LAWYER, selected for the Richard
& Judy Book Club. Michael Connelly has been President of the Mystery
Writers of America. His books have been translated into 31 languages and
have won awards all over the world, including the EDGAR and ANTHONY
AWARDS. He lives in Tampa, Florida, with his family.
