When evidence links a brutal murder in 1989 to a convicted rapist named Clayton Pell the case should be water-tight. Pells DNA was found on the victim - but he was only eight years old at the time. This not the only mystery Harry Bosch has to solve. A man jumped - or was pushed - from a window. The victims father is Councilman Irving whos been intent on destroying Harrys career for years. Now Irving wants Harry to head up the investigation. Harry uncovers traces of two of the citys deepest secrets: a killer operating for as many as three decades without being detected and a conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department ...
