LAPD Detective Renée Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly.
Renée Ballard is working the night beat again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but then checks into the case herself and it brings a deep tug of empathy and anger.
Bosch is investigating the death of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally murdered and her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now, Ballard joins forces with Bosch to find out what happened to Daisy and finally bring her killer to justice.
Michael Connelly is one of my top three crime authors and I love Bosch, a detective who has been Connelly's main character since his very first book. Dark Sacred Night sees Bosch team up with Renee Ballard, a new character, who I am beginning to enjoy meeting and hope to see in many more of Connelly's novels.
The bringing together of two characters means that Dark Sacred Night is a must read novel that fans of Connelly's back catalogue will enjoy and the introduction of Ballard brings another dynamic to the cases being investigated. I hope that Bosch and Ballard have many more oppurtunities to work as a partnership in future novels as I would love to see it develop.
Dark Sacred Night is a fantastic crime thriller read and one that I would recommend to all my blog readers.
Thank you to Orion and Compulsive Readers for inviting me to take part in the blog tour and for a copy of the book in return for an honest review.
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