Chasing the Dime

Henry Pierce runs a nanotech company and has just been dumped by his girlfriend, Nicole. On his new phone, he gets calls from men looking for an escort named Lilly. Curious, Pierce goes looking for her: he finds the escort site's owner, Billy Wentz, and an apartment with a bloody mattress. Detective Bob Renner starts treating him as a suspect, and Wentz's thugs beat him up. Pierce finds Lilly's body in a storage unit rented in his name and realizes he's being framed. The setup came from his friend Cody Zeller, paid by rivals to sabotage his project. In a shootout at the lab, Pierce kills Wentz. The project moves ahead, and he tries to win Nicole back.

1. ReferenceTied to the Dollmaker

   Henry Pierce's sister was a victim of the Dollmaker, the killer Bosch shot before The Concrete Blonde.

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2. ReferenceFamiliar faces

   Attorney Janis Langwiser, who advises Pierce, had already helped Bosch in Angels Flight. And Detective Bob Renner will cross paths with Bosch later.

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