Four years ago, Harry Bosch shot the notorious serial killer The Dollmaker." Now Harry is accused of killing the wrong man."

When maverick LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church, the police were convinced it marked the end of the hunt for the Dollmaker, the city's most bizarre serial killer. But now Norman Church's widow is accusing Bosch of killing the wrong man - and to make things worse, Bosch has just received a taunting note that appears to be from the Dollmaker himself. Same handwriting, same awful poetry.

Is the Dollmaker still alive? Or is this the work of a vicious copy-cat killer determined to repeat the Dollmaker's grisly feats and destroy Bosch's career in the process?