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Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense
A new thriller introducing a savvy new female detective in Los Angeles, perfect for fans of John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell.
A compelling thriller introducing a driven, young detective trying to prove herself in the LAPD.
Renee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. 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 cases 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 own partner's wishes, she works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night.
As the cases 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.
Praise for Michael Connelly:
'A superb natural storyteller' Lee Child
'One of the great crime writers' Daily Mail
'Connelly is a crime writing genius' Independent on Sunday
Read by Katherine Moennig (p) 2017 Hachette Audio
Praise for The Late Show
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This is storytelling at its best from one of America's greatest living crime writers - DAILY EXPRESS
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Connelly is one of the great crime writers, a novelist who creates a fictional world so succinctly, and inhibits it so purposefully, that you are convinced it must be real. His mastery of place and character, his ease with dialogue, his control of plot, give his books a subtlety that is irresistible - DAILY MAIL
Michael Connelly
A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the internationally bestselling author of the Harry Bosch series, and several other bestsellers including the highly acclaimed legal thriller, The Lincoln Lawyer. He has been President of the Mystery Writers of America, and his books have been translated into thirty-nine languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. He spends his time in California and Florida
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