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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.
Listen to Harry Bosch's Voicemail
— hear messages from the characters in Echo Park.
Michael Connelly Interviews Harry Bosch
— about the Echo Park case and his mission. Click on the link to hear this 10:45 minute MP3 file.
Read an excerpt and reviews of Echo Park. Watch a video and listen to a clip from the audiobook. Get a reading guide.
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