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THE DARK HOURS

Michael Connelly

A dangerous killer strikes on New Year's Eve and LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch must join forces to find justice for the victim in a city scarred by fear and social unrest.

There's chaos in Hollywood on New Year's Eve. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard seeks shelter at the end of the countdown to wait out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. As reports start to roll in of shattered windshields and other damage, 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 murdera 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).

Michael Connelly is the author of thirty-five previous novels, including the New York Times bestsellers, The Law of Innocence, Fair Warning, and The Night Fire. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of Bosch, starring Titus Welliver, and the creator and host of the podcast Murder Book. He spends his time in California and Florida.

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Book Published 2021-11-09 by Little, Brown

Comments

The Dark Hours is yet another superb thriller from a writer at the top of his game and will delight the millions of fans of the Bosch books and the accompanying TV drama starring Titus Welliver.

The Dark Hours is the most riveting of Connelly's Renée Ballard novels, and a hopeful signpost for the future of the police procedural.

Connelly is sharp as ever and his stories always manage to explore another piece of the city's soul.

stellar. This is a masterpiece!

Few writers have ever managed to grab and hold readers' attention the way Michael Connelly has the last three decades, and The Dark Hours is yet another reminder that we're witnessing one of the all-time greats... who's shown absolutely no signs of slowing down anytime soon.

THE DARK HOURS has gone straight to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list (combined print & ebook; and #2 for hardcover print only)

The Dark Hours is an authentic, topical and terrifying thriller: one of Michael Connelly's very best.

...a veteran crime writer returns with a thrill-packed yet incisive look at present-day America.

In Michael Connelly's 'The Dark Hours,' Ballard and Bosch just get better.He's one of the best in the business at writing about investigations and creating intense suspense, but the relationship between Ballard and Bosch - a professional friendship that grows out of two brilliant minds dedicated to the same difficult but important work - is the cherry on top.

outstanding... We've said before that Connelly is the most consistently superior living crime fiction author. The Dark Hours' just reinforces that.

Ballard and Bosch are a great combination as they work in and around a police force that Ballard believes too often aims to "protect and serve the image instead of the citizens."

This is a compelling listen with a gritty portrayal of the current social environment.

The Dark Hours is a book of our times - I urge you to read it.

The Dark Hours is yet another superb thriller from a writer at the top of his game and will delight the millions of fans of the Bosch books and the accompanying TV drama starring Titus Welliver.

Publishers Weekly recently profiled Michael Connelly, calling him "that rare breed of writer who can write smart books quickly." Read more...

The consistently excellent Connelly's latest thriller faces up to the challenges of contemporary policing.

in this stellar series... no one who follows Ballard and Bosch to the end will be disappointed. A bracing test of the maxim that "the department always comes first. The department always wins."

It's Connelly's thirty-sixth novel and, like the other thirty-five, it is frighteningly good.

THE DARK HOURS is a top 3 Connelly book. 29 years in and he's still bringing his fastball. Amazing. Preorder this book.

A topical thriller, sensitively handled by a real crime pro.

Again and again, Michael Connelly amazes with his penetrating look inside the machinery of the LAPD, all while keeping the human hearts inside the machine front and center. The Dark Hours is another perfect example.

The fourth Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch novel is the best yet, both because Ballard has evolved into one of crime fiction's richest, most complex characters and because Connelly takes an unflinching look at policing in the postGeorge Floyd era.