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Michael Connelly
In this first installment of the Renée Ballard series, #1 bestselling author Michael Connelly introduces a "complicated and driven" young detective fighting to prove herself on the LAPD's toughest beat (The New York Times).Renee Ballard works the midnight shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing few, as each morning she turns everything over to the daytime units. It's a frustrating job for a once up-and-coming detective, but it's no accident. She's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.But one night Ballard catches two assignments she doesn't want to part with. First, a prostitute is brutally beaten and left for dead in a parking lot. All signs point to a crime of premeditation, not passion, by someone with big evil on his mind. Then she sees a young waitress breathe her last after being caught up in a nightclub shooting. Though dubbed a peripheral victim, the waitress buys Ballard a way in, and this time she 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 intertwine, Ballard is forced to face her own demons and confront a danger she could never have imagined. To find justice for these victims who can't speak for themselves, she must put not only her career but her life on the line. Propulsive as a jolt of adrenaline and featuring a bold and defiant new heroine, The Late Show is yet more proof that Michael Connelly is "a master of the genre" (Washington Post).
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Author
Michael Connelly
Pages
416
Publisher
Little, Brown
Published Date
2017-07-18
ISBN
0316225975 9780316225977
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"Great read! Ballard is great and gritty, a lot like Bosch. "
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"This was a bit of a slow start for me. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something about this took a while for me to connect with Renee. But a third of the way through, the story picks up and the world fell away. Just like any other of Connelly's books. Pure magic.<br/><br/>Sometimes I get tired of the borderline corruption story line. I'm never tired of it in a Connelly book. He has a way of making it important to the story, not just an easy plot device used to throw conflict at a character and later dropped as if it hadn't happened.. And with this one, the harassment of a woman in the work place is an all too common occurrence. Connelly doesn't back down from it. Good for him."
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