McCaleb sees a banner at the police station that reads "Welcome Back Thelma!", an obvious reference to the parole officer's injuries. The injured parole officer appears again in The Closers (2005) during one of Bosch's investigations, and Bosch recognizes Cassie's mugshot in a newspaper article in her cubicle. Notes 2000 American novels Novels by Michael Connelly Novels set in the Las Vegas Valley Little, Brown and Company books