In this "superb" thriller, Detective Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to the unsolved killing of a young female photographer during the 1992 L.A. riots (Wall Street Journal).
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the...

In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but all other evidence is virtually nonexistent.

Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had a mentor who taught him to take the work personally and fight for for every case. That mentor, J.J. Thompson, is dead now, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book outlining the unsolved killing of a troubled young man. Bosch brings the murder book to LAPD detective Renée Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson's fire all those years...