Dark Sacred Night
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Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD Detective Renée Ballard to face the unsolved murder of a runaway, and the fight to bring a killer to justice.Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat -- known in LAPD slang as "the late show" -- and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin.Ballard can't let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has never been the kind of cop who leaves the job behind at the end of her shift -- and she wants in.The murder, unsolved, was of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally killed, her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now Ballard joins forces with Bosch to find out what happened to Daisy, and to finally bring her killer to justice. Along the way, the two detectives forge a fragile trust, but this new partnership is put to the test when the case takes an unexpected and dangerous turn.Dark Sacred Night for the first time brings together these two powerhouse detectives in a riveting story that unfolds with furious momentum. And it shows once more why "there's no doubt Connelly is a master of crime fiction" (Associated Press).
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Author
Michael Connelly
Pages
448
Publisher
Little, Brown
Published Date
2018-10-30
ISBN
0316486671 9780316486675
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"What a team, Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch. Michael Connelly is in top form doing something new here: He weaves together two strong characters with similarly unwavering moral compasses, then has them hunt down bad guys and close cold cases. So glad Connelly brings these vibrant characters together."
Diane Morello
"I'm way behind on the Harry Bosch novels. I think I'm like 8 or 9 books behind. So it was nice reading a book that featured him, though a bit down the road from where I remember him.<br/><br/>I think I really like Ballard. She and Bosch have a few things in common. Namely, they both seem to get the short end of the stick when it comes to supervisors. I didn't mind her L-T (as Connelly wrote it) in the previous book. However. HOWEVER. In this book, he shows a bit of what may be his true colors. And even more, I like how Connelly isn't afraid to go there. Because I'm sure all women have had that kind of boss or supervisor. <br/><br/><spoiler>In the previous book, we see where Ballard ended up on the Late Show. Her former superior officer was (and still is) an asshat. But we see how the department handles that more in this book. While her L-T didn't sabotage her call for backup, someone sure did. And it could have ended badly for Ballard. Sure, this is fiction! But I imagine that things like this do happen. While the police might take rape allegations seriously (or not, as we see in this book), they sure don't back up their officers when it comes to another officer being the offender. And we see how that affects Ballard while she's on the job. It doesn't paint a pretty picture.</spoiler><br/><br/>I love Connelly and his books. I'm not certain what the future holds for these two, but I really do hope Connelly goes the way I hope he goes."
Aimee Gibson
"I am currently reading Luke Jenning’s “Killing Eve” series. I recently read Steve Cavanaugh’s Eddie Flynn series. I loved it and highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good legal thriller. It will not disappoint! One of my all time favorite books is “I Am Pilgrim” by Terry Hayes. It is by far one of the best suspense novels I have ever read. "
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