When the body of a local teenager turns up in a community garden, veteran homicide detective Gus Ramone teams up with T. C. Cook, a legendary, now retired detective, and Dan "Doc" Holiday, his former partner who left the force under a cloud of suspicion.
Micky Haller, strafpleiter uit Los Angeles ('De Lincoln-advocaat' en 'Het laatste oordeel'), treedt dit keer op als openbare aanklager. Een hele ommekeer, tot nu toe heeft hij altijd aan de kant van de verdediging gestaan. Het gaat om de 24 jaar geleden voor een kindermoord veroordeelde Jessup die via de resultaten van recent DNA-onderzoek probeert zijn onschuld te bewijzen. Haller neemt de opdracht aan op voorwaarde dat zijn ex-vrouw hem mag assisteren en zijn halfbroer rechercheur Harry Bosch (hoofdpersoon in veel van Connelly’s misdaadverhalen) het nodige onderzoek doet. Het is een moeilijke zaak waarin ze de media en het bewijsmateriaal tegen hebben, maar het trio is ervan overtuigd dat Jessup schuldig is en als hij vrijkomt nieuwe moorden zal plegen. Een goed geschreven, spannende, uitstekende legal thriller van een van de topauteurs in het misdaadgenre met een intrigerende plot en veel aandacht voor de karakterontwikkeling en privélevens van zijn hoofdpersonen, o.a. de verhouding tussen Harry Bosch en zijn tienerdochter Maddie. Vijf sterren in de VN-Detective & Thrillergids. Biblion Redactie
For Jack McEvoy, the killer named The Poet was the last word in evil. Think again, Jack. Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the Los Angeles Times as the newspaper grapples with dwindling revenues, he's got only a few days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of journalism school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang — a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honor — a Pulitzer prize. Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. Jack convinces Alonzo's mother to cooperate with his investigation into the possibility of her son's innocence. But she has fallen for the oldest reporter's trick in the book. Jack's real intention is to use his access to report and write a story that explains how societal dysfunction and neglect created a 16-year-old killer. But as Jack delves into the story he soon realizes that Alonzo's so-called confession is bogus, and Jack is soon off and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path years before. He reunites with FBI Agent Rachel Walling to go after a killer who has worked completely below police and FBI radar—and with perfect knowledge of any move against him. What Jack doesn't know is that his investigation has inadvertently set off a digital tripwire. The killer knows Jack is coming—and he's ready.
In his third book the brilliant Andy McDermott sends Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase hurtling round the globe in search of the legendary sword Excalibur.