Series: Book 7 in the Harry Bosch series
Rating: ****
Tags: Bosch; Harry (Fictitious character), Michael Connelly, Los Angeles (Calif.), Police, Mystery & Detective, Crime, Fiction, General, Lang:en
Summary
Both Terry McCaleb and Harry Bosch are
featured in a story that is a murder mystery, a legal thriller,
and a psychological drama. Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a
case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a
movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex,
and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide.
Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a
trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in
full-throated frenzy. Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an
idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old
colleague brings his former world rushing back. It's a murder,
the unreadable kind of murder he specialized in solving back in
his FBI days. The investigation has stalled, and the sheriff's
office is asking McCaleb to take a quick look at the murder
book to see if he turns up something they've missed. McCaleb's
first reading of the crime scene leads him to look for a
methodical killer with a taste for rituals and revenge. As his
quick look accelerates into a full-sprint investigation, the
two crimes - his murdered loner and Bosch's movie director -
begin to overlap strangely. With one unsettling revelation
after another, they merge, becoming one impossible, terrifying
case, involving almost inconceivable calculation. McCaleb
believes he has unmasked the most frightening killer ever to
cross his sights. But his investigation tangles with Bosch's
lines, and the two men find themselves at odds in the most
dangerous investigation of their lives.