The three short stories in the book get linked to the personal life of Harry Bosch and the audience gets astonished at the ending of each of these three stories. The scenes and the themes are different like always and the young detective is playing with fire as we observed in Desert Star and Echo Park: Harry Bosch Series, Book 12.
When the first story opens in this book, all of us are told about a burglar who was planning something big and during the accomplishment of his mission, he got shot and died on the spot. No one was interested in looking deep into the matter because they thought that the case was closed with the death of the criminal.
Harry Bosch was not thinking in the same way so he kept on investigating and the link of the criminal with his own past just stuns him. The story with the name “Father’s Day” paints the death of a young boy and this case makes Harry Bosch think about his own life as a father and his connection with his son.
So this second story moves on a personal scale more in comparison to the crime scenes as Harry keeps on thinking about his life as a father. The last one is about the first homicide which Harry dealt with in the initial stages of his career. The author Michael Connelly tells how Harry left that case incomplete and now after many decades that case still haunts him from the inside. So he thinks that the time has come to deal with that fear and get rid of the evil forever.
