ECHO PARK

From the popular Harry Bosch series. In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood, and the case has haunted Harry ever since. Fearing for the worst, the case is elevated by LAPD commanders from the Missing Person Squad to the Homicide Division and it was a case that Harry couldn't crack. 13 years later he is in the Open-Unsolved Unit where he still keeps the Gesto file on his desk when he gets a call from the DA's office. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of those murders he says is the killing of Marie Gesto. Harry is now assigned to take Raynard Waits' confession and to make sure the killer is not scamming authorities to avoid a date with death. Meanwhile Harry's whole being as a cop begins to crack when he comes to realise that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 which could have led them to Waits and stopped the nine murders that followed. We are kept guessing until the exciting conclusion. 392pp, paperback.