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Michael Connelly
The Night Fire
Book #3 of the Renee Ballard series
See the list of Renee Ballard books in order

The Night Fire

Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renée Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch’s mentor in this New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.

Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, and his widow gives Bosch a murder book, one that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD twenty years before — the unsolved killing of a troubled young man.

Bosch takes the murder book to Detective Renée Ballard and asks her to help him discover what about this crime lit Thompson’s fire all those years ago. As she begins her inquiries — while still working her own cases on the midnight shift — Ballad finds aspects of the initial investigation that just don’t add up.

The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigation team. And they soon arrive at a disturbing question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved?

Written with the intense pacing and masterful suspense that have made Michael Connelly “the hard-boiled fiction master of our time” (NPR), The Night Fire continues the unofficial partnership of two fierce detectives determined not to let the fire with burn out.

A FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR
CrimeReads Best Crime Novel Notable selection

Author: Michael Connelly
Published: 2019
Page Count: 448

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