Die Rückkehr des Poeten

It all seems to point to a natural death. However, the widow of former police officer Terry McCaleb asks Harry Bosch to investigate. The clues lead Bosch to Nevada, where he meets FBI agent Rachel Walling. A message from the "Poet," a serial killer believed to have been dead for years, who left lines from Edgar Allan Poe at the crime scenes, has brought them here, to a mass grave in the Mojave Desert just behind the California border. The two outsiders team up: Walling, who has fallen out of favor at the FBI after she shot the Poet but he managed to escape, and Bosch, who is working as a private investigator, often finding his hands tied without a badge. Both investigators believe they are hot on the trail of the highly intelligent serial killer. But the Poet plays by his own rules, and he has unfinished business with Walling.