Desert Star
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4.4 • 67 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch work together to hunt the killer who is Bosch's 'white whale' - a man responsible for the murder of an entire family.
A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralisation and endless red tape. Yet after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving 'the Late Show' to rebuild the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division.
For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that haunts him but that he hasn't been able to crack - the murder of an entire family by a psychopath who still walks free. Ballard makes Bosch an offer: come 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 behind him.
The two must put aside old resentments to work together again and close in on a dangerous killer. Propulsive and unstoppable, this new novel demonstrates once again why 'Connelly is the real deal' (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review).
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Former Los Angeles Times police reporter Michael Connelly continues his long-running and immensely popular Harry Bosch and Renée Ballard series with Desert Star. Few genre writers are able to capture a sense of time, place and procedure as well as Connelly does with LA’s mercurial amalgamation of glamour and grit. That precision-point ear for dialogue and description is expertly on display in this latest tale, which sees hard-boiled detective Harry Bosch reuniting with deputy Renée Ballard, who entices him back to police work with an irresistible promise. In exchange for his expertise, he’ll have carte blanche to hunt his ‘one that got away’: a killer responsible for the death of an entire family and who remains a free man. Fans of Connelly’s extensive body of work on the page or the big screen will find everything they have come to expect from this pitch-perfect crime procedural, while new readers will be sucked in by the irascible Bosch and his LA beat.
Customer Reviews
Desert Star
Good Bosch and Ballard story. Recommended