Chasing the Dime: A Novel

Henry Price has a whole new life-new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. But the first time he checks his messages, he discovers that someone had the number before him. The messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Price is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, and it's unlike any world he's ever known. It is a nighttime world of escort services, websites, sex, and secret identities. Price tumbles through a hole, abandoning his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met.

Price's skills as a computer entrepreneur allow him to trace Lilly's last days with some precision. But every step into Lilly's past takes Price deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy-and a decision that could cost him everything he owns and holds dear.

Michael Connelly is the author of the bestselling series of Harry Bosch novels, and the bestsellers "A Darkness More Than Night," "Void Moon," "Angels Flight," "Blood Work," and "The Poet." Connelly has won an Edgar Award, a Nero Wolfe prize, a Macavity Award, and an Anthony Award.