City of Bones

2007, mass market paperback re-issue edition, Orion Books, London, U.K. 410 pages. Acclaimed novelist produces another detective novel, set in the Hollywood Hills. He finds bones of a 12-year-old boy, buried for years. Character Harry Bosch is determined to uncover the boy's haunted past. Interestingly, in 1914, the bones of a female homicide victim were found in the La Brea Tar Pits in L.A. The bones were 9,000 years old. The woman the earliest known murder victim in the place known as Los Angeles. .