The Dark Hours: The Brand New Blockbuster Ballard & Bosch Thriller

Review Consistently excellent... The plotting is as skilful as ever, and the pacing as relentless ― Mail On SundayThe Dark Hours is yet another superb thriller from a writer at the top of his game ― Sunday ExpressAn authentic, topical and terrifying thriller: one of Michael Connelly's very best. ― THE TIMESThoroughly engrossing ... The Dark Hours offers plenty of shocking scenes and clever surprises ― Wall Street JournalBallard and Bosch are a great combination as they work in and around a police force that Ballard believes too often aims to 'protect and serve the image instead of the citizens.' ― Washington PostA masterpiece ― Publishers WeeklyRelentless on their own, Ballard's and Bosch's combined skills...could be combustible ― LA Times Product Description AS NIGHT FALLS, A KILLER COMES TO LIGHT...'An authentic, topical and terrifying thriller: one of Michael Connelly's very best.' THE TIMES'The Dark Hours is yet another superb thriller from a writer at the top of his game' SUNDAY EXPRESS'Consistently excellent ... The plotting is as skilful as ever, and the pacing as relentless'MAIL ON SUNDAYOn New Year's Eve at the end of one of the hardest years in history, hundreds of revellers shoot their guns into the air in time-honoured LA tradition. But as the rain of lead comes down, a man is shot dead in the middle of a crowded street party.Detective Renée Ballard soon connects the bullet to an unsolved cold case last worked by legendary ex-LAPD detective Harry Bosch. As they investigate where the old and new cases connect, a new crime shatters the night shift.The Midnight Men are a pair of violent predators who stalk the city during the dark hours, and will kill to keep their identities secret.In a police department shaken to the core by pandemic and protests, both cases have the power to save Ballard's belief in the job - or take everything from her...* * * * *CRIME DOESN'T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY.'One of the very best writers working today' Sunday Telegraph'The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation' Ian Rankin'A superb natural storyteller' Lee Child'A master' Stephen King'Crime thriller writing of the highest order' Guardian'America's greatest living crime writer' Daily Express'A crime writing genius' Independent on Sunday Book Description Has a killer lain dormant for years only to strike again on New Year's Eve? LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to find justice for an innocent victim in the new thriller from #1 bestselling author Michael Connelly. From the Back Cover A brazen and methodical killer strikes on New Year's Eve and LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch must join forces to find justice for the victim in a city scarred by fear and social unrest, in the new thriller from the #1 Sunday Times bestseller Michael Connelly. There's chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year's Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revellers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party. Ballard quickly concludes that the deadly bullet could not have fallen from the sky and that it is linked to another unsolved murder - a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. At the same time, Ballard hunts a fiendish pair of serial rapists, the Midnight Men, who have been terrorizing women and leaving no trace. Determined to solve both cases, Ballard feels like she is constantly running uphill in a police department indelibly changed by the pandemic and recent social unrest. It is a department so hampered by inertia and low morale that Ballard must go outside to the one detective she can count on: Harry Bosch. But as the two inexorable detectives work together to find out where old and new cases intersect, they must constantly l