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in Los Angeles In 1988, A Sixteen-year-old Girl Disappeared From Her Home And Was Later Found Dead Of A Gunshot Wound To The Chest. The Death Appeared At First To Be A Suicide-but Some Of The Evidence Contradicted That Scenario, And Detectives Came To Believe This Was In Fact A Murder. Despite A By-the-book Investigation, No One Was Ever Charged. now Detective Harry Bosch Is Back With The Lapd With The Sole Mission Of Closing Unsolved Cases, And This Girl's Death Is The First He's Given. A Dna Match Makes The Case Very Much Alive Again, And It Turns Out To Be Anything But Cold. The Ripples From This Death Have Destroyed At Least Two Other Lives, And Everywhere He Probes, Bosch Finds Hot Grief, Hot Rage, And A Bottomless Well Of Betrayal And Malice. the Washington Post - Jonathan Yardley connelly, A Former Reporter On Newspapers In Florida And Los Angeles Who Went Straight And Started Writing Fiction About Two Decades Ago, Is The Real Thing: An Immensely Skilled Entertainer Who Has Mastered The Requirements And Expectations Of His Genre But Also From Time To Time Rises Above Them. Chandler Self-evidently Is His Muse And Occasionally The Influence Is A Bit Too Blatant, But Connelly Writes Grown-up Novels That -- Along With Work By The Likes Of Scott Turow, Elmore Leonard And John Grisham -- Remind Us That The Place To Look For Serious American Fiction Is Not In The Schools Of Creative Writing But Out There In The Real World.