CRIME NEVER SLEEPS'CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR' Daily Mail ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST MYSTERYTHRILLERS OF THE YEAR Detective Renee Ballard works ' The Late Show' the notorious graveyard shift at the LAPD It's thankless work for a once-promising detective keeping strange hours in a twilight world of crime Some nights are worse than others & tonight is the worst yet Two shocking cases hours apart a brutal assault & a multiple murder with no suspects Ballard knows it is always darkest before dawn But what she doesn't know
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- is how deep her investigation will take her into the dark heart of her city the police department & her own past The Late Show will keep you up all night it's time to meet Detective Renee Ballard ' The new novel from America's greatest living crime writer is a gripping thrill ride that will entrance you & keep you reading until the small hours' Daily Express' It has been more than ten years since Connelly one of the world's greatest crime writers last launched a major new character superb storytelling
- this cements Connelly's place at the very top of the crime-writing tree' Daily Mail' Classy & clever with a tenacious heroine' Sunday Mirror' Connelly achieves an enormous amount in these pages he creates a new character who immediately leaps into life; & controls a complex fast-paced plot full of surprises' Evening Standard' The Late Show introduces a terrific female character Detective Renee Ballard The pacing is breathless Ballard has astonishing resourcefulness & bravery
- she is complicated & driven' New York Times' Although the usual Connelly fingerprints are in evidence here
- the real achievement is the creation of his tenacious heroine Ballard' Guardian' Ballard is significantly more than a Bosch replacement or clone
- an absorbing character on her own terms Connelly has created yet another potentially iconic tarnished knight of those perennially mean streets' Irish Times'A characteristically complex tale of murder & police corruption' Mail on Sunday (Thriller of the Week)' First there was Detective Harry Bosch then Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller & now comes Renee Ballard ace thriller writer Michael Connelly's first new protagonist in 10 years A nail-bitingly exciting investigation featuring a finely realised new character from one of America's finest contemporary novelists' Irish Independent