Renée Milders Dowden Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Wanneer een gevangene een oude moord bekent, krijgt een rechercheur in Los Angeles een van zijn onopgeloste zaken terug.

A convicted hitman suddenly confesses to a twenty-year-old murder - the slaying of a District Attorney's sister. Why he chose this moment to reveal his secret, he refuses to say... A businessman tries to go on the run from his family home when an old photograph turns up in a new roll of film. A photograph of him as a young man. But on leaving his house, he is immediately snatched by a vicious, trained killer and bundled into the back of a waiting car. These things are linked, but by what, or whom, no one knows. Only that the past is coming back to haunt the present and people are getting hurt...

Una noche aparece un cadáver en un observatorio de las colinas de Hollywood. Aparentemente, se trata de un asesinato común, por lo que el detective de policía Harry Bosch se hace cargo del caso. No obstante, pronto se descubrirá que la víctima trabajaba en el sector clínico y que tenía acceso a sustancias radiactivas. Esto convierte un simple homicidio en un asunto de terrorismo. El FBI toma las riendas y empieza una carrera contrarreloj para encontrar a los culpables, en un caso en el que nada es lo que parece.

Former FBI agent Rachel Walling is working a dead-end stint in South Dakota when she gets the call she's been dreading for four years. The Poet is back. And he has not forgotten Rachel. He has a special present for her. Harry Bosch is adjusting to life in Las Vegas as a private investigator and a new father. He gets a call, too, from the widow of a friend who died recently. Previously in his FBI career, the friend worked on the famous case tracking the killer known as The Poet. This fact alone makes some of the elements of his death doubly suspicious. And Harry Bosch is heading straight into the path of the most ruthless and inventive murderer he has ever encountered...

Een voormalig FBI-agent wordt teruggeroepen om te helpen bij het onderzoek naar een seriemoordenaar waarbij een vriend en ex-collega betrokken zou zijn.