A brazen and methodical killer strikes on New Year's Eve, and LAPD detectives Rene Ballard and Harry Bosch must join forces to find justice for a victim in a city ravaged by fear and social unrest in a new thriller from the #1 best-selling author New York Times by Michael. Connelly
Hollywood is in chaos at the end of the countdown to the New Year. Working the night shift, LAPD Detective Renee Ballard waits out the traditional lead rain while hundreds of revelers fire into the air. Just minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to the stage where a hard-working auto shop owner is mortally wounded by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party.
Ballard quickly deduces that the deadly bullet could not have fallen from the sky and that it is connected to another unsolved murder case once handled by Detective Harry Bosch. At the same time, Ballard is on the hunt for a pair of brutal serial rapists, the Midnighters, who terrorize women and leave no trace.
Determined to solve both cases, Ballard feels like he's constantly running uphill in a police station indelibly changed by the pandemic and recent social unrest. This department is so hampered by inertia and low morale that Ballard must turn to the only detective she can count on: Harry Bosch. But as the two relentless detectives work together to figure out where old and new cases intersect, they have to constantly look back. The brutal predators they follow are willing to kill to hide their secrets.
It's been a year since LAPD Detective Renee Ballard quit the police force due to misogyny, demoralization and endless red tape. However, after the police chief himself tells her that she can write her own ticket at the department, Ballard takes her badge, leaving the Late Show to rebuild the cold case department in the elite robbery and homicide department.
For years, Harry Bosch has been working on a case that haunts him, but which he can never solve - the murder of an entire family by a psychopath who is still at large. Ballard proposes to Bosch: work with her as a volunteer investigator in the new Open-Unsolved Unit, and he can pursue his "white whale" with the resources of the LAPD.
When Harry Bosch was new to homicide, he had an inspirational mentor who taught him to take his job personally and ignite the fire of ruthlessness in every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral, his widow hands Bosch the book of murders that Thompson took with him when he retired from the LAPD 20 years ago—the unsolved murder of a troubled young man in an alley used for drugs. transactions.
The bond between Bosch and Ballard grows stronger as they become a formidable investigative team. And they soon come to a disturbing question: Did Thompson steal the book about the murders so that he could investigate the case in retirement, or so that it would never be solved?
Michael Connelly is an American best-selling crime fiction and mystery author. His novels have been translated into 36 languages. He was born and is the second oldest child in the family of a real estate developer and a housewife. His mother was interested in crime fiction and introduced Michael to the genre. Michael moved from Philadelphia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Connelly's interest in crime was heightened when one day he saw a mysterious man throwing something at a fence.
He took out the item, and it turned out to be a gun wrapped in a shirt. He went home and told his father. Connelly was exposed to and impressed by the world of police investigations. He graduated from St. Thomas Equinas High School and majored in construction at the University of Florida. After getting failing grades, he went to watch The Long Goodbye, based on a book by Raymond Chandler. The experience further inspired Connelly to become a writer. He read all of Chandler's work and then decided to change his educational focus to education and minor creative writing. Connelly graduated from the University of Florida in 1980.
He began writing about crime in the Daytona Beach News Journal. He then got jobs with the Fort Lauderdale News and the Sun-Sentinel. He covered the rampant violence and chaos of the cocaine wars in southern Florida. In 1984, he married Linda McCaleb, whom he met in college. Connelly was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for interviewing survivors of the Delta Flight 191 crash in 1986. This led to him getting a job at the Los Angeles Times and moving to California in 1987.
Connelly visited the apartments featured in The Long Farewell to Philip Marlowe. Eventually, when they became available for recording, he rented an apartment. In 1992, Connelly sold his first novel, The Black Echo, to Lit.
Hollywood is in chaos at the end of the countdown to the New Year. Working the night shift, LAPD Detective Renee Ballard waits out the traditional lead rain while hundreds of revelers fire into the air. Just minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to the stage where a hard-working auto shop owner is mortally wounded by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party.
Ballard quickly deduces that the deadly bullet could not have fallen from the sky and that it is connected to another unsolved murder case once handled by Detective Harry Bosch. At the same time, Ballard is on the hunt for a pair of brutal serial rapists, the Midnighters, who terrorize women and leave no trace.
Determined to solve both cases, Ballard feels like he's constantly running uphill in a police station indelibly changed by the pandemic and recent social unrest. This department is so hampered by inertia and low morale that Ballard must turn to the only detective she can count on: Harry Bosch. But as the two relentless detectives work together to figure out where old and new cases intersect, they have to constantly look back. The brutal predators they follow are willing to kill to hide their secrets.
It's been a year since LAPD Detective Renee Ballard quit the police force due to misogyny, demoralization and endless red tape. However, after the police chief himself tells her that she can write her own ticket at the department, Ballard takes her badge, leaving the Late Show to rebuild the cold case department in the elite robbery and homicide department.
For years, Harry Bosch has been working on a case that haunts him, but which he can never solve - the murder of an entire family by a psychopath who is still at large. Ballard proposes to Bosch: work with her as a volunteer investigator in the new Open-Unsolved Unit, and he can pursue his "white whale" with the resources of the LAPD.
When Harry Bosch was new to homicide, he had an inspirational mentor who taught him to take his job personally and ignite the fire of ruthlessness in every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral, his widow hands Bosch the book of murders that Thompson took with him when he retired from the LAPD 20 years ago—the unsolved murder of a troubled young man in an alley used for drugs. transactions.
The bond between Bosch and Ballard grows stronger as they become a formidable investigative team. And they soon come to a disturbing question: Did Thompson steal the book about the murders so that he could investigate the case in retirement, or so that it would never be solved?
Michael Connelly is an American best-selling crime fiction and mystery author. His novels have been translated into 36 languages. He was born and is the second oldest child in the family of a real estate developer and a housewife. His mother was interested in crime fiction and introduced Michael to the genre. Michael moved from Philadelphia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Connelly's interest in crime was heightened when one day he saw a mysterious man throwing something at a fence.
He took out the item, and it turned out to be a gun wrapped in a shirt. He went home and told his father. Connelly was exposed to and impressed by the world of police investigations. He graduated from St. Thomas Equinas High School and majored in construction at the University of Florida. After getting failing grades, he went to watch The Long Goodbye, based on a book by Raymond Chandler. The experience further inspired Connelly to become a writer. He read all of Chandler's work and then decided to change his educational focus to education and minor creative writing. Connelly graduated from the University of Florida in 1980.
He began writing about crime in the Daytona Beach News Journal. He then got jobs with the Fort Lauderdale News and the Sun-Sentinel. He covered the rampant violence and chaos of the cocaine wars in southern Florida. In 1984, he married Linda McCaleb, whom he met in college. Connelly was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for interviewing survivors of the Delta Flight 191 crash in 1986. This led to him getting a job at the Los Angeles Times and moving to California in 1987.
Connelly visited the apartments featured in The Long Farewell to Philip Marlowe. Eventually, when they became available for recording, he rented an apartment. In 1992, Connelly sold his first novel, The Black Echo, to Lit.
