On a Bad Goodbye - Michael Connelly - book

Bosch embarks on "high-tension" missions: tracking down a serial rapist and finding an heir that some refuse to see in the picture. Chilling and moving.

Now a reserve detective with the San Fernando Police Department, Harry Bosch is one day contacted by an aeronautics magnate who, sensing his death approaching, wants to know if he has an heir. In his youth, the old man was forced to leave his girlfriend under pressure from his family. Will she have had a child with him? This question not being to the liking of the board of directors eager to share the cake, Bosch is quickly threatened. To complicate matters, his colleagues at the police station are unable to get their hands on a particularly formidable serial rapist...