LAPD Detective Harry Bosch crosses paths with FBI profiler Terry
McCaleb while investigating the murder of a Hollywood actress.
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.
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