The Black Box: Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch is a detective in LA and is called to a murder during a riot in 1992. The white woman gets the name "Snow white" and is found out to be a Danish photo journalist writing about war crimes. 20 years after the murder Bosch is asked to solve some of the murders during the riot because a police chief is running for senator and wants to look good. He gets a lead on this single murder by finding the gun used. The gun was also used for other murders spanning the past 20+ years. Following the trail created by both the articles the journalist had written during that time and the gun trail Bosch realizes the police chief was the man who killed the journalist, who his buddies had raped when they were fighting in the Persian Gulf. He was trying to cover up their crimes and then ends up killing the remaining "buddies". Bosch narrowly misses being shot and Drummer, the police chief ends up running his helicopter into a wind turbine when making his get away. He becomes paralyzed from the accident.