Renee Ballard returns to the LAPD to lead a reopened cold-case unit and asks veteran investigator Harry Bosch to help pursue a decades-old family murder and a trail of related attacks.

When a forensic lead links the long-unsolved rape and murder of a teenager to similar crimes, political pressure rises. Ballard and Bosch set aside tensions to hunt both a family killer and a serial predator across Los Angeles, balancing public scrutiny with careful police work.

Lean and character-driven, the novel combines close procedural detail with the personal obsessions that push detectives. It examines institutional obstacles, forensic leads, and the emotional stakes of long investigations.

• Cold-case investigation & police procedure
• Partnership and tense character dynamics
• Los Angeles setting and political stakes

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