When the body of high profile black lawyer Howard Elias is found inside one of the cars on Angels Flight, a funicular railway in downtown LA, there's not a detective in the city who'll touch the case.
Murdered on the eve of a lawsuit on behalf of Michael Harris, Elias' specialty was prosecuting cases of police brutality, corruption and racism. Like every other cop, Harry Bosch believed Harris guilty as accused of rape and murder of a twelve year old girl. Elias' civil action was supposed to expose the LAPD and reveal the real killer. Now it's all down to Bosch - and it means digging deep into a minefield of suspicion and hate buried in his own backyard.

The spy game cost Paul Janson everything that was most important to him, so it would take a lot to lure him back into it. But there is one person to whom Janson owes a huge debt - and he's calling in his marker..... Peter Novak has been kidnapped and faces execution at the hands of terrorist extremists. Janson leads a tam to extricate him - but something goes horribly wrong and Janson is the only survivor. It appears that the operation had been compromised from the start and the intelligence services are convinced Janson is responsible.

Stone Lewis is just out of jail and looking for a fresh start. With new tattoos on his face - they held him down in the nick and did them for him - he looks scary enough for people to give him a wide berth. But that doesn't stop a battered Asian girl he finds in the doorway of his basement flat asking for his help. Ginny has come to Hull from California, looking for her best friend after her letters suddenly stopped. She's beautiful, she's a very long way from home, and Stone agrees to help.

Alex Wilde has got it bad....She's 27, single, bored out of her tiny mind at work and surrounded by flatmates that would make a glitterball feel square. She's got the world's worst case of Venus Envy. Her little sister Gail is pretty, waif-like and irritating. Femme fatale Keisha is flying up the ladder of success at work. And Bronwen is so hip, it's a miracle she can walk at all!

Shocked by his brother's death, Jack McEvoy, crime reporter, investigates a surprising rise in police suicides. A disturbing pattern of coincidences suggests that a cop killer is choosing his victims with terrible care. Coast-to-coast Jack follows a trail of unusual 'suicide notes'. He may be on to the story of a lifetime, but scarier still, 'the poet' knows that Jack is on his tail.

Journalist Drew Looney is in a rut, waiting for her job to get better - or at least for a decent story. Then, while covering a mundane deportation, she accidentally stumbles upon something far more sinister.... Georgina Fitz-Simons has just overcome a flourishing cocaine habit, but not soon enough to stop her falling foul of gangster Broylan Grillo. As Drew and George are thrown together by circumstance they become increasingly mired in a dark world of drugs, slave labour, money and murder. Not to mention an inconvenient corpse, a Serbian hit man, and a retired Glam rocker...