β Scribed by Michael Connelly
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Echo Park (2006)
In 1993, Marie Gesto
disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the
worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missing
persons squad to the Homicide Division, where
Harry Bosch was assigned the
case. But the 22-year-old woman never turned up dead or alive and
it was a case Bosch couldn't crack.
Thirteen years
later Bosch is in the
Open-Unsolved Unit when he gets a call from the DA's office. A man
accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to
several other murders in a deal to avoid
the death penalty. One of
those murders, he says, is the killing of Marie Gesto. Bosch is now
assigned to take Raynard Waits' confession and to make sure the killer
is not scamming authorities to
avoid a date with death.
In
confirming the confession Bosch must get close to the man he has sought
for thirteen years. Bosch's whole being as a cop begins to crack
when he comes to realize
that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 that could have led
them to Waits and would have stopped the nine murders that followed the
killing of Marie Gesto.
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In 1995, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the 22-year-old woman never turned up, dead or alive. Now Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where he still keeps the Gesto file on his desk, when he gets a call
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