“I have waited twenty years for this phone call . . . and all this time I thought it would go away. I knew I would always be sad for my sister. But I thought the other would go away.”

“What is the other, Henrik?”

Though he knew the answer.

“Anger . . . I am still angry, Detective Bosch.”

Bosch nodded. He looked down at his desk, at the photos of all the victims under the glass top. Cases and faces. His eyes moved from the photo of Anneke Jespersen to some of the others. The ones he had not yet spoken for.

“So am I, Henrik,” he said. “So am I.”

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author would like to gratefully acknowledge those who helped with the research and writing of this novel. They include detectives Rick Jackson, Tim Marcia, David Lambkin, and Richard Bengtson, as well as Dennis Wojciechowski, John Houghton, Carl Seibert, Terrill Lee Lankford, Laurie Pepper, Bill Holodnak, Henrik Bastin, Linda Connelly, Asya Muchnick, Bill Massey, Pamela Marshall, Jane Davis, Heather Rizzo, and Don Pierce.

Thank you to author Sara Blædel for her help with Danish translations.

The music of Frank Morgan and Art Pepper was also an invaluable inspiration. Many thanks to all.

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Connelly is a former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, and is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling Harry Bosch thrillers, including his most recent, The Drop, as well as several stand-alone bestsellers, including The Poet. Michael Connelly is a former President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages and have won numerous awards. He lives with his family in Tampa, Florida.

Also by Michael Connelly

ALSO BY MICHAEL CONNELLY

Fiction

The Black Echo

The Black Ice

The Concrete Blonde

The Last Coyote

The Poet

Trunk Music

Blood Work

Angels Flight

Void Moon

A Darkness More Than Night

City of Bones

Chasing the Dime

Lost Light

The Narrows

The Closers

The Lincoln Lawyer

Echo Park

The Overlook

The Brass Verdict

The Scarecrow

Nine Dragons

The Reversal

The Fifth Witness

The Drop

Non-Fiction

Crime Beat

E-books

Suicide Run

Angle of Investigation

Mulholland Dive

The Safe Man

Copyright

Copyright

This edition published in Australia and New Zealand by Allen & Unwin in 2012.

First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Orion Books.

Copyright © 2012 by Hieronymus, Inc.

All characters and events in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.