May 1992 & after four LAPD officers were acquitted after the savage beating of Rodney King Los Angeles is ablaze. As looting & burning take over the city law & order are swept away in a tidal wave of violence. But under threat of their lives homicide detectives like Harry Bosch are still stubbornly trying to do their job. With no effective police presence on the streets murder just got a whole lot easier
- & investigating them got a whole lot harder. Escorted by national guard soldiers from murder scene to murder scene Harry & his colleagues are only able to do the bare minimum in terms of collecting evidence. & for Harry that's not enough. When he finds the body of a female journalist executed in an alley he cannot accept that he will never be able to bring her killer to justice & her tragedy starts to eat into his soul. But then twenty years later Harry finds himself working in the Open Unsolved Unit & suddenly the past comes back to haunt him once again in a way he could never have imagined. Read by Michael Mc Connohie. Michael Mc Connohie has had a long career as both an on-camera & voiceover actor. He was two of the original Transformers as well as a GI Joe in the cartoon series which are still airing today & has lent his voice to countless TV shows & motion pictures. He has also been a major part of many of the most popular video games voicing the Lich King & other characters for World of War Craft " the Voice of the Agency for Crackdown & Crackdown 2. For almost ten years he traveled the world supervising foreign-language versions of major motion pictures for Warner Bros. & Dream Works. He has been an audiobook presence for decades. From true crime to fiction to self-help he's read just about every kind of audiobook there is. He's an Audio File Earphones award winner for Stuart M. Kaminsky's " Always Say Goodbye " & was part of the Grammy-nominated " Lincoln-Douglas Debates" with David Straithairn & Richard Dreyfuss. Michael makes his home in Southern California."