The black echo: For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch, hero, maverick, nighthawk, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal.

The black ice: LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch returns in a procedural thriller set in and around the drug-trafficking underworlds of inner-city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico.

The concrete blonde: Having shot the notorious serial killer, the "Dollmaker," four years earlier, maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch finds himself in court, defending himself against a lawsuit that claims he killed the wrong man.