Echo Park (novel)

Echo Park

Author	Michael Connelly
Country	USA
Language	English
Series	Harry Bosch, #12
Genre(s)	crime fiction, mystery
Publisher	Little, Brown (USA), Orion (UK)
Publication date
Published in English	September 2006 (USA), September 2007 (UK)
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	446
ISBN	ISBN 0752865846 (UK), (USA)
Preceded by	The Closers
Followed by	The Overlook

Echo Park is the 17th novel by American crime-writer Michael Connelly, and the twelfth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch.

Plot summary

Now, nearing 60, Bosch is back with the LAPD, working in the Open-Unsolved Unit, going over cold cases with his most recent partner, Kizmin "Kiz" Rider. Most of the cops on the unit, including Rider, are from a different generation; Harry may have backup, but emotionally and mentally he's alone. A serendipitous traffic stop in L.A.'s Echo Park neighborhood nabs Reynard Waits, a man with body parts on his front seat. Soon Waits has confessed to a string of slayings involving prostitutes and runaways, as well as to two earlier murders: one of a pawnshop owner during the 1992 riots, the other of a young equestrian named Marie Gesto, whose car and clothing turned up in a garage but whose body was never found. Bosch had worked the Gesto case and had in years since reopened the files on occasion, but had come up empty. He had even pegged a likely culprit — the son of a wealthy and powerful industrialist — so Waits' confession and knowledge of the body's location throw him for a loop. But Bosch is shaken more deeply when the case files are reexamined and it seems that Waits had called the police shortly after the murder, pretending to be a tipster; he could have been implicated within a week of Gesto's disappearance.