Desert Star
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal 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, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving “the Late Show” to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division.
For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that haunts him—the murder of an entire family by a psychopath who still walks free. Ballard makes Bosch an offer: come volunteer as an investigator in her new Open-Unsolved Unit, and he can pursue his “white whale” with the resources of the LAPD behind him.
First priority for Ballard is to clear the unsolved rape and murder of a sixteen-year-old girl. The decades-old case is essential to the councilman who supported re-forming the unit, and who could shutter it again—the victim was his sister. When Ballard gets a “cold hit” connecting the killing to a similar crime, proving that a serial predator has been at work in the city for years, the political pressure has never been higher. To keep momentum going, she has to pull Bosch off his own investigation, the case that is the consummation of his lifelong mission.
The two must put aside old resentments and new tensions to run to ground not one but two dangerous killers who have operated with brash impunity. In what may be his most gripping and profoundly moving book yet, Michael Connelly shows once again why he has been dubbed “one of the greatest crime writers of all time” (Ryan Steck, Crimereads).
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Former L.A. police detective Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch has had it up to here with unsolved cases and old age, and that’s just how we like him. With retirement making him particularly cranky, Bosch jumps in to help his old partner Renée Ballard close a particularly horrific crime he wasn’t able to crack the first time around. Michael Connelly is at the top of his game as Bosch and Ballard uncover a potential serial killer—not to mention red tape and workplace politics. His crisp, compelling prose propels the action from the gritty streets of L.A. to the starkly beautiful desert, and veteran Connelly narrators Christine Lakin and Titus Welliver (who plays Bosch in the TV show of the same name) are perfect. (We also loved Peter Giles in his smaller role as Harry’s half brother, attorney Mickey Haller.) Whether or not you’re already a fan of the Ballard and Bosch books, this is a must-listen with a heart-wrenching final twist.
Customer Reviews
Best detective story
Of the Bosch series I liked this one the best. It was straight forward police detective work without a lot of crazy scenarios.
Captivating and Awsome!
Welliver and the other 2 readers made this book the best Connelly book I’ve read or listened to!
I have pre ordered his next book with the same readers!
Worth your time!
Excellent book. Great readers. Enjoyed very much.