Title: The Flight of Angels - Michael Connelly - book
Summary :
Called in the middle of the night by his boss, Detective Harry Bosch is asked to go to the Angels Flight cable car, where two bodies have been found, including that of Howard Elias, a civil rights lawyer who specialized in bringing the Los Angeles police to justice. These trials have earned him considerable popularity among Black people. This shows that the investigation Harry is immediately entrusted with is explosive: his colleagues are ideal suspects, and if he makes the slightest mistake, the entire South Central neighborhood could ignite again, just as it did after the Rodney King case.
And to make matters worse, his wife, the beautiful Eleanor Wish, a former FBI agent who went bad, is leaving him. But orders are orders. So Harry Bosch obeys, and immediately encounters the first signs of sabotage to his work.