The Night Fire

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch come together again on the murder
case that obsessed Bosch's mentor - but was this flame kept alive, or a secret
that was meant to be snuffed out?

Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an
inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire
of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, J.J. Thompson, is dead, but
after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with
him when he left the LAPD 20 years before - the unsolved killing of a troubled
young man in an alley used for drug deals.

Bosch brings the murder book to Renée Ballard and asks her to help him find
what about the case lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. That will be
their starting point.

The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable
investigation team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson
steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never
got solved?