Chasing darkness [ang.]

It`s fire season in the Los Angeles hills, and as an inferno closes in on the homes of Laurel Canyon, the LAFD makes a gruesome discovery-the days-old corpse of an apparent suicide, the reclusive Lionel Byrd, along with a grisly photo album of young female murder victims. Three years earlier, Elvis Cole uncovered evidence that freed Byrd from murder charges; now, all signs indicate Cole helped a killer walk. Shut out by a police task force, Cole, along with his taciturn partner, Joe Pike, must blast through the lies, politics, and corruption obscuring the truth about Lionel Byrd-or get himself burned...