Also Available as an ebook. Sometimes it takes fresh blood to solve old killings. After the stunning bestsellers The Poet and Trunk Music, Michael Connelly`s readers have come to expect thrillers with almost unbearable drama and unforgettable characters. In Blood Work, Connelly surpasses even his own high standards. "Blood Work"—that`s what Terrell McCaleb used to call his job at the FBI. Until a heart condition forced him to take early retirement, he headed all investigations of serial murders in the Los Angeles area. Now he is recovering from a heart transplant operation and leads a quiet life. His goal is simple: to finish restoring the fishing boat he lives on in Los Angeles Harbor and return to his hometown on Catalina Island. But McCaleb`s calm seas turn rough when a story in the L.A. Times brings him face-to-face with Graciela Rivers, a darkly intriguing woman who hooks him with the story of her sister`s unsolved murder. Against doctor`s orders and his own better judgment, McCaleb agrees to take up the case. As he sifts through the evidence, it seems at first like a random crime. But then he notices details that don`t make sense—until he looks at the case from a radically unsettling point of view. Soon Terry is on the trail of a killer whose crimes are more baffling and horrifying than anything he has ever encountered. It`s a mind-bending, breakneck case that leads McCaleb into the darkest place he`s ever known, unsure whether he even wants to survive his own investigation. Written with a poet`s eye and a nearly criminal cunning, Blood Work is thriller writing at its absolute best.