Living on a boat in San Pedro, CA, Terry McCaleb is a former FBI agent who received a heart transplant. It has been two months and he is recovering quite nicely. He has plans of restoring his father's boat and moving to Catalina Island. However, Graciela Rivers shows up on his boat and asks him to solve his sister's murder. Having gained public notice in his FBI days, he is used to such requests and initially declines. Then Graciela reveals that her sister provided his transplanted heart. Against the direction of his doctor, McCaleb takes the case, infuriating the LAPD detectives who haven't solved it. The story refers to events in previous novels, notably The Poet. In fact, McCaleb is credited with being on that case though I don't recall him from the novel. He even mentions Agent Rachel Walling. LA Times reporter Keisha Russell, who appeared in at least a couple of the Bosch books, appears here too.
The mystery continually expands and soon becomes far more complex than one would expect from the start. Like previous Connelly novels, there are no coincidences. Everything is important and it is only thanks to the detail-oriented nature of his protagonists (Bosch, McEvoy, McCaleb) that the loose ends are tied and impossible cases solved.
Great book and highly recommended.
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