The Burning Room (A Harry Bosch Novel Book 17)

Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner, Detective Lucia Soto, investigate a cold case in the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit. A man dies from complications of a gunshot wound sustained a decade earlier. With the body still fresh but other clues virtually nonexistent, Bosch must solve the murder while training Soto, a young detective with no homicide experience, in his methods. Beginning with the bullet lodged in the victim's spine, Bosch and Soto extract new leads from years-old evidence. Their investigation reveals the shooting was not random and leads them to another unsolved case: deaths of several children in a fire that occurred twenty years ago. As their work threatens careers and lives, the detectives must decide whether to risk everything to uncover the truth or allow some secrets to remain buried.