Introducing Renée Ballard, a fierce young detective fighting to prove herself on the LAPD’s toughest beat, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.
Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood–also known as the Late Show–beginning many investigations but finishing none, as each morning she turns everything over to the day shift. A once up-and-coming detective, she’s been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.
But one night she catches two assignments she doesn’t want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn. Against orders and her partner’s wishes, she works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night. As the investigations entwine, they pull her closer to her own demons and the reason she won’t give up her job, no matter what the department throws at her.
Reasonable Renee could use a bit of fleshing out. Not a very convincing woman.Good plot.Usual good background for the story and for Renee.Hope he perseveres with her as she could be a worthy follow up to Harry.
The Late Show Being a big fan of Bosch – both the books and the TV series – I started this book with a little trepidation, sort of partly hiding behind the sofa, with a cushion in front of my face, and one eye closed! To be fair and honest, once I had read a few pages, all the defenses I had raised crumbled as I realised that I had nothing to fear from this, the series opener for Mr Connelly’s new character Renee Ballard, night shift detective.
The first in a new (hopefully) long series. Renee Ballard is the new Harry Bosch (there’s a sample at the end of this book from the upcoming Harry Bosch book – which I didn’t read, preferring to savour new instalments afresh).