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Wrong Side of Goodbye, Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch is off the LA police force.  P.I. and part-time employee of San Fernando police.  Called to do a little P.I. work for a wealthy Los Angelino in his 80's . . . Vance.

Raymond Chandler start. Vance, an old California scion, calls Bosch in to investigate a personal matter.  Does the dying old man have relatives (grandchildren, most likely) from a romance when he was 18 with a Mexican girl, Vivianna Duarte?  The old, dying guy wants Bosch to report to him only.  The danger--since Vance has no heirs, all the board members who would inherit the business would prefer than no heir exist.

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