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Book SynopsisCRIME NEVER SLEEPS.
''CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR'' Daily Mail
ONE OF AMAZON''S BEST MYSTERY/THRILLERS OF THE YEAR
* * * * *Detective Renée 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. And tonight is the worst yet.
Two shocking cases, hours apart: a brutal assault, and a multiple murder with no suspects.
Ballard knows it is always darkest before dawn. But what she doesn''t know - yet - is how deep her investigation will take her into the dark heart of her city, the police department and her own past...
The Late Show will keep you up all night: it''s time to meet Detective Renée Ballard.
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''The new novel from America''s greatest living crime writer is a gripping thril
Trade ReviewThe Late Show introduces a terrific female character
. . . The pacing is breathless . . . Connelly expertly hides a trail of bread crumbs that leads straight to the denouement, with so much else going on that it's impossible to see where he's heading * New York Times *
First there was Detective Harry Bosch, then Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller, and now comes Renee Ballard, ace thriller writer Michael Connelly's first new protagonist in ten years. A nail-bitingly exciting investigation featuring a finely realised new character from one of America's finest contemporary novelists * Irish Independent *
'A characteristically complex tale of murder and police corruption' (Thriller of the Week) * Mail on Sunday *
Classy and clever, with a tenacious heroine * Sunday Mirror *
The Late Show reads like a Bosch novel, as Connelly braids multiple investigations into his plot, driving the story onward ... 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 *
