“A masterpiece” – LAPD detective Renée Ballard must join forces with Harry Bosch to find justice in a city scarred by fear and social unrest after a methodical killer strikes on New Year’s Eve (Publishers Weekly).
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 revelers 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 determines 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 look over their shoulders. The brutal predators they are tracking are ready to kill to keep their secrets hidden.
Unfolding with unstoppable drive and nail-biting intrigue, The Dark Hours shows that “relentless on their own, Ballard’s and Bosch’s combined skills … could be combustible” (Los Angeles Times).
By: Michael Connelly
Narrated by: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin
Series: A Harry Bosch Novel, Book 23, A Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch Novel, Book 4
Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 11-09-21
Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Crime Fiction, Police Procedurals
Language: English
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
10 Comments
❤thankyou for this.
part 2?
Not a fan at all. You lost me on this one. It’s like listening to paint dry
Making the problem. While commenting on the lack.
AI?
Good reader, good story, bad Australian accent😅
Uploading a second part sooner would be appreciated – my attention span is short. I may probably lose the thread of the story if it doesn't come soon.
Pt2??
Oops.. No..Connelly. don't like the tone..I know where you're coming from. Peace out.
Poor Harry being badgered to get vax. Is he still with us?
Oooh. I’m a couple of hours in and it’s not grabbing me. I knew it in my bones that Ballard would end up being the main character in a book – I understand the need for PC but frankly she does not do it for me. Her and the other characters – so far – are not particularly engaging.
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