A Life Remembered

A boy remembers his father.

A detective discovers who that father really was.

A man looks back of the extraordinary life he lived.

In A Life Remembered, New York Times bestselling author and retired LAPD homicide detective turns the investigator's eye upon his own life.

From an unconventional Los Angeles childhood and a complicated relationship with his brilliant, enimatic father, Dr. George Hill Hodel, through the Navy, marriage, fatherhood, and a twenty-four-year career with the Los Angeles Police Department, he recounts a life lived largly without know the secret that would ultimately redefine his past.

Only after his father's death did the detective begin the investigation that changed everything he thought he knew about the father he loved.

But, A Life Remembered, is not simply the story of that investigation.

It is the story of a son and his father, of innocence and discovery, love and betrayal, choices made and roads not taken--and of an old detective ooking back across the years at the people, places, accidents, loves, losses, and mysteries that made him who he became.

Sometimes we understand a life

only after we have lived it.