After years of battling the LAPD administration, Harry Bosch is no longer an LAPD homicide detective. He has been forced into retirement and has a lawsuit pending against them. Retirement isn't something he wanted and he soon realizes he needs to keep busy. Harry gets a private investigator's license and he also starts volunteering as a reserve officer in a small town nearby. Soon both jobs involve him in complex cases.
Bosch is approached in his private investigator's role by a man who made billions in the aviation business. Old and sick, the man has unfinished business. Years before when he was just 18, he had gotten his girlfriend pregnant but has no idea what happened after that as his family managed to separate them. He now wants Harry to find out what happened and if he actually has an heir to his fortune out in the world.
At the same time, Harry is caught up in a serial rapist case. The man cuts the screens of his victim's houses and enters where he rapes the woman inside. His victims are Hispanic and it seems that he has stalked them beforehand. Harry recognizes that there is a pattern and starts looking for other cases, which he soon finds. The man seems to be escalating and the police feel he can easily become a killer soon. Can he help his new partners find this criminal before he strikes again?
This is the nineteenth Harry Bosch novel. The serial rapist case seems to be loosely based on the Golden State Killer case. Bosch is still defining law enforcement in his own determined fashion and he manages to work through obstacles that leave other people stymied. Bosch fans will enjoy these new adventures that are keeping Bosch busy even after his time with the LAPD has ended. This book is recommended for mystery readers.
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