Harry's life is a mess His girlfriend has left him He's drinking too much And he's even had to turn in his badge he attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely pending a psychiatric evaluation At first Bosch resists the LAPD shrink but finally he recognizes that something has long been troubling him In 1961, when Harry was eleven, his mother was brutally murdered No one was ever accused of the crime Harry opens up the decades-old file and is irresistibly drawn into the past