“It was a Friday morning and the smart people had already taken of for the weekend. This made traffic into downtown a breeze and Harry Bosch got to the courthouse early. Rather than wait for Mickey Heller on the front steps, where they had agreed to meet, he decided to look for his lawyer inside the monolithic structure that covered half a block of space and nineteen floors into the air.”
Detective Harry Bosch had retired from the LAPD and his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, has asked for his help investigating a murder. Bosch has spent his entire career working to catch the bad guys and has never worked for the defense, so he struggles with his concerns about going over to the other side, but he does join in the investigation.
Heller’s client, Da’Quan Foster, is in jail awaiting trial for a rape and murder. Foster’s DNA was found at the crime scene, but Haller believes it was a setup. Bosch gets off the record confidential help from his former LAPD partner, Lucia Soto, and they find connections to several other crimes that include an expensive wristwatch that seems missing from the crime scene.
The case eventually leads inside the police department and Bosch becomes a target himself as he starts to discover the truth.
The story highlights the skills of a police investigator and shows Michael Connelly to be a master at solving a challenging puzzle
