The Late Show (Renee Ballard Series, #1)

by Michael Connelly

"Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn. Against orders and her own partner's wishes, she works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night. As the cases entwine they pull her closer to her own demons and the reason she won't give up her job no matter what the department throws at her."--

• ISBN10: 0316225983
• ISBN13: 9780316225984
• Publish Date: 18 July 2017 (first published 11 July 2017)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Little Brown and Company
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 448
• Language: English

Reviews

[anne]

New version of homelessness.

[empressbrooke]

This was just not Connelly's best version of himself. Everything about it felt like a weak imitation of him. The writing was wobbly, the main character's reasoning for trying to avenge someone who thoroughly betrayed her was unconvincing, and so was the fact that none of her coworkers actually assigned to the case she kept sticking her nose in were able to connect the dots that she did. The end did redeem one complaint I had where I thought that things were going down a super predictable path, but ultimately I hope that the next Renee Ballard outing is stronger than this first one.