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.
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.
A NEW DETECTIVE IN TOWN . My book came in the post from Amazon about 11am today and here I am at 9:45 pm just finished. Once again, this book is Michael at his best. By the end of the first page I was hooked and read through lunch and dinner. Some writers turn out a few good books and then they are done; not so with Connelly. How he keeps inventing the characters he writes about I have no clue, but his book are always riveting and keep you reading until the last page. Harry Bosch, Mickey Haller, Jack McEvoy,…
For Late Nighters, Insomniacs and Early Risers, Connelly Never Fails I have been reading Harry Bosch novels for years and also enjoy the Amazon series “Bosch.” “Trunk Music” was the first Connelly book I read and have not stopped reading him since. His attention to detail in investigations is authentic, superb and on the level of Ed McBain or Joseph Wambaugh. He cranks out quality writing, but bucks the current trend in churning out books, to readers dissatisfaction, by not partnering with co-writers like some bestselling authors do to meet…