Publisher's Synopsis
A Harry Bosch thriller. Harry's life is a mess. His girlfriend has left him. He's drinking too much. And he's even had to turn in his badge: he attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first Bosch resists the LAPD shrink but finally he recognizes that something has long been troubling him. In 1961, when Harry was eleven, his mother was brutally murdered. No one was ever accused of the crime. Harry opens up the decades-old file and is irresistibly drawn into the past. It's clear that the case was bungled. His mother was a prostitute, and even thirty years later the smell of a cover-up is unmistakable... Bosch relentlessly follows up old evidence seeking justice or at least understanding. His investigations lead him to prominent people leading public lives in the Hollywood hills. And Harry finds that old passions don't die. They cause new murders even today.
