On New Year’s Time, a puppy finds a bone tissue in the Hollywood Hills–and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years previous. It’s a cool case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his child years as an orphan. He can’t ignore it. As the investigation will take Bosch deeper in to the past, a lovely rookie cop brings him alive in today’s. No official warning can break them apart–or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case requires a few hard turns. Suddenly all of L.A. is certainly in an uproar, and Bosch, fighting to keep control, is usually driven to the brink of an unimaginable decision.