In Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket Harry Bosch worked the case but couldnt crack it and the twenty-two-year-old was never found Now more than a decade later with the Gesto file still on his desk Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney A man accused of two heinous murders is willing to come clean about several others including the killing of Marie Gesto Taking the confession of the man he has sought-and hated-for thirteen years is bad enough Discovering that he missed a clue back in that could have stopped nine other murders may just be the straw that breaks Harry Bosch