Part of Harry Bosch, book 19
First published 2016
Harry Bosch has traded his LAPD badge for a private investigator's license. He works without an office or advertisements, choosing his clients carefully. A dying billionaire approaches him with a decades-old mystery. The reclusive mogul once loved a Mexican woman who vanished after becoming pregnant. He wants to know if she bore his child and whether an heir exists somewhere. Bosch accepts the case, aware that a vast inheritance makes the search dangerous for everyone involved. As he digs into the past, he discovers strange connections to his own history. Meanwhile, Bosch volunteers with a small police department that lacks resources. There he hunts a serial rapist who proves more cunning and threatening than most criminals he has faced. Bosch finds himself pulled between two cases that demand everything he learned in thirty years of police work. The search for the missing heir becomes personal as buried secrets surface, while the hunt for the rapist tests his skills against a predator who seems always one step ahead.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: personal-stakes, private-investigator
Setting: LAPD, Los Angeles
Period: 21st-century
388 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown and Company