The Late Show By Michael Connelly

CRIME 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. * * * * * ‘The new novel from America’s greatest living crime writer is a gripping thrill ride that will entrance you and 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 and 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