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Desert Star by Michael Connelly

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A desert star is a tiny white flower found, unsurprisingly enough, in the inhospitable desert sands. Resilient and beautiful, they’re “a sign of god in this fucked up world”, according to a friend of former LAPD detective Hieronymous ‘Harry’ Bosch. The flowers of the book’s…
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The Night Fire

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Michael Connelly’s second Bosch and Ballard book really cements the partnership which tentatively began in Dark Sacred Night. The pair work together on an unsolved case which appears to have haunted Bosch’s old mentor, John Jack Thompson – so much so, that after he dies,…
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The Night Fire

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Written by Michael Connelly — Just this summer, we took at look at the Harry Bosch series. Harry first appeared back in 1992 in The Black Echo and here he is, still going strong, in book 22. Actually, ‘strong’ may be a little optimistic. After…
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Dark Sacred Night

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Michael Connelly does a sterling job of melding old stager and newcomer together in this cracker of a book which finds the American crime author at the top of his game. We first met LAPD Detective Renee Ballard in 2017 in The Late Show, now…
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Dark Sacred Night

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Written by Michael Connelly — It’s the age of the BOGOF – buy one, get one free – so I suppose it’s about time the concept arrived in crime fiction land. Early to jump on the bandwagon is Michael Connelly, who had already dipped a…
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The Late Show

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Michael Connelly stays in his beloved LA for the first in a new series of high-end police procedurals. His new character is Renee Ballard, an LAPD detective consigned to the night shift after falling foul of the bureaucracy and politics of her department. She’s a…
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