In 1995, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Harry Bosch worked the situation but couldn’t crack it, as well as the 22-year-old woman never turned up, dead or alive. Now Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Device, where he still maintains the Gesto file on his desk, when he gets a call from the DA. A man accused of two heinous killings can be willing to come clean about other murders, like the killing of Marie Gesto. Bosch must now take Raynard Waits’s confession and obtain close to the guy he provides sought – and hated – for eleven years. However when Bosch discovers that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1995 that could possess led these to Gesto’s killer – and that would have halted nine murders that adopted – he begins to crack.

Michael Connelly’s suspenseful fresh book pits the detective People journal calls ‘a single of the very most complex criminal offense fighters around’ against one of the most sadistic killers he has ever confronted. It confirms that Michael Connelly ‘is usually the best writer of suspense fiction functioning today’ (Richmond Times-Dispatch).