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Echo Park is a 2006 crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring Los Angeles police detective Harry Bosch. A suspected serial killer claims responsibility for the long-unsolved disappearance of Marie Gesto, a case Bosch had investigated years earlier without finding her. Bosch reopens the file and examines both the confession and his own prior work, confronting the possibility that overlooked evidence allowed further crimes to occur.
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Who is Marie Gesto, and why has her disappearance haunted Harry Bosch?
Marie Gesto vanished in 1993 after leaving a Hollywood supermarket, and Bosch never found her body or killer. He continued revisiting her file for years because he viewed the unsolved case as a personal failure.
Why does Bosch doubt Raynard Waits's confession?
Waits offers to lead investigators to Marie's remains as part of an effort to avoid a death sentence. Bosch must determine whether Waits possesses genuine knowledge or obtained case details from someone involved in the prosecution.
What old investigative mistake drives the plot of Echo Park?
Bosch discovers that he and his partner overlooked a lead during the original 1993 investigation. The possibility that acting on it could have prevented later killings forces him to question both the confession and the integrity of the old case.
Where does Echo Park fall in the Harry Bosch series?
Published in 2006, Echo Park is the twelfth novel centered on Bosch. At this stage he is working in the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, which gives him official access to the Marie Gesto cold case.
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