Betsy F. reviewed Dark Sacred Night (Renee Ballard, Bk 2) (Harry Bosch, Bk 21) (Audio CD) (Abridged) on + 330 more book reviews
great book
Ken S. reviewed Dark Sacred Night (Renee Ballard, Bk 2) (Harry Bosch, Bk 21) (Audio CD) (Abridged) on + 48 more book reviews
Another great Bosch novel with a new detective to continue bringing stories from the LAPD.
Frank H. (perryfran) reviewed Dark Sacred Night (Renee Ballard, Bk 2) (Harry Bosch, Bk 21) (Audio CD) (Abridged) on + 1223 more book reviews
This book is the first teaming of Harry Bosch and Renee Ballard. Ballard was introduced in Connelly's THE LATE SHOW which I read and enjoyed a year or so ago. She works the night shift or "Late Show" after being ostracized for filing a sexual harassment suit against her Lieutenant and getting no backup from her partner. After being out on the case of a dead woman found in a bathtub, she returns to Hollywood Station to find a stranger going through old file cabinets. Turns out the stranger was Bosch who was looking for records that may tie to a cold case he is looking into on his own time while away from his part-time duties at the San Fernando PD. The case involved a young girl named Daisy Clayton who was murdered and left in a dumpster nine years ago in 2009. Bosch has promised the girl's mother to find the perp. So Ballard also decides to look into the case after Bosch leaves and ends up working with him to try to get to the bottom of it. In the meantime, she is called out on other various cases and Bosch works another cold case at SFPD involving the murder of a latino gang member. This case puts both Bosch and his daughter, Maddie, in peril along the way.
This was overall a very good police procedural with both Bosch and Ballard working the cold case along with their other duties and callouts for Ballard to go to various crime scenes. The case involving Daisy takes a lot of different turns along the way with a host of possible suspects as Ballard and Bosch zero in on the killer. I liked this compelling story and will look forward to reading more of Connelly's followup novels featuring these two detectives. I also hope to read quite a few of the prior Bosch novels I have missed. . . hopefully soon but my TBR piles don't seem to get any smaller. :)
This was overall a very good police procedural with both Bosch and Ballard working the cold case along with their other duties and callouts for Ballard to go to various crime scenes. The case involving Daisy takes a lot of different turns along the way with a host of possible suspects as Ballard and Bosch zero in on the killer. I liked this compelling story and will look forward to reading more of Connelly's followup novels featuring these two detectives. I also hope to read quite a few of the prior Bosch novels I have missed. . . hopefully soon but my TBR piles don't seem to get any smaller. :)
jjares reviewed Dark Sacred Night (Renee Ballard, Bk 2) (Harry Bosch, Bk 21) (Audio CD) (Abridged) on + 3413 more book reviews
Michael Connelly introduced Renee Ballard in THE LATE SHOW in 2017. 'The Late Show' refers to the night shift in the Hollywood station of LAPD. Although Renee was a bright light in the LAPD, she was assigned to the midnight shift in Hollywood as punishment for filing a sexual harassment complaint against one of her supervisors.
One night, she meets Harry Bosch working his way through some LAPD files. Her curiosity peaked, Renee figures out what Bosch is working on -- a 15-year-old runaway who was killed and her body dropped off at a Hollywood dumpster. This was the daughter of Elizabeth Clayton, a character in TWO KINDS OF TRUTH (2017).
This is a very dark Harry Bosch novel. It seems as if Connelly is weaning us off of Harry -- slowly but surely. I enjoyed this book but worry that there soon won't be any more Harry Bosch. 4.5 stars
Bosch and Ballard
** 1. Dark Sacred Night (2018)
2. The Night Fire (2019)
One night, she meets Harry Bosch working his way through some LAPD files. Her curiosity peaked, Renee figures out what Bosch is working on -- a 15-year-old runaway who was killed and her body dropped off at a Hollywood dumpster. This was the daughter of Elizabeth Clayton, a character in TWO KINDS OF TRUTH (2017).
This is a very dark Harry Bosch novel. It seems as if Connelly is weaning us off of Harry -- slowly but surely. I enjoyed this book but worry that there soon won't be any more Harry Bosch. 4.5 stars
Bosch and Ballard
** 1. Dark Sacred Night (2018)
2. The Night Fire (2019)
