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Desert Star

Written by: Michael Connelly
Narrated by: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin, Peter Giles
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LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch’s “white whale”—a man responsible for the murder of an entire family. Featuring a sneak peak of the first chapter from The Waiting by Michael Connelly.

A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving “the Late Show” to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division.

For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that haunts him—the murder of an entire family by a psychopath who still walks free. Ballard makes Bosch an offer: come volunteer as an investigator in her new Open-Unsolved Unit, and he can pursue his “white whale” with the resources of the LAPD behind him.

First priority for Ballard is to clear the unsolved rape and murder of a sixteen-year-old girl. The decades-old case is essential to the councilman who supported re-forming the unit, and who could shutter it again—the victim was his sister. When Ballard gets a “cold hit” connecting the killing to a similar crime, proving that a serial predator has been at work in the city for years, the political pressure has never been higher. To keep momentum going, she has to pull Bosch off his own investigation, the case that is the consummation of his lifelong mission.

The two must put aside old resentments and new tensions to run to ground not one but two dangerous killers who have operated with brash impunity. In what may be his most gripping and profoundly moving book yet, Michael Connelly shows once again why he has been dubbed “one of the greatest crime writers of all time” (Ryan Steck, Crimereads).

©2022 Michael Connelly (P)2022 Little, Brown & Company
Detective Literature & Fiction Police Procedural Fiction Mystery Scary Cold Case
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What the critics say

“One of this month’s best thrillers… Ballard and Bosch are a great combination as they work in and around a police force that Ballard believes too often aims to ‘protect and serve the image instead of the citizens.’”—Richard Lipez, Washington Post

“A thoroughly engrossing procedural… The Dark Hours offers plenty of shocking scenes and clever surprises."—Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

“Outstanding… Connelly is the most consistently superior living crime fiction author. The Dark Hours just reinforces that.”—Oline H. Cogdill, South Florida Sun Sentinel

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Another great Bosch novel !!!

Please, Michael Connelly do not let this be your last Bosch novel !!! I am a huge fan, and would hate for them to ever end!!!

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Bosch! Enough said …

Lean back and listen. Michael Connelly never disappoints. Great story and awesome narration. One of the most satisfying listens I’ve experienced in a while

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Harry Bosch - no more??

All good things must come to an end but still hopeful for one more - please!

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Another great Harry Bosch

Wonderful to hear Titus Welliver narrating. All narrators were good. I loved the book's careful plotting and resolution. All in character as we have been used to. I'm looking forward to more Michael Connelly books though I suspect there won't be any more Harry Bosch ones.

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Great BooK

Once again Michael Connelly does not disappoint, Excellent book. Well read. Thank You for the adventure.

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Excellent book

Harry Bosch…iconic. Ballard the new kid on the block. Sorry for the ending! A great work of fiction.

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Great as usual

Connelly never fails! Characters, plot, denouement, all satisfying. I await the next book every time.

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great story!

I was I'm need of a story that took me to other places! Was just what I didn't expect, but better!

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Another Wonderful Harry Bosch story

Truly enjoyable. Great production and a riveting story. Will keep you engaged and wanting more.

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A great MC Thriller

Harry is Harry which is enough to buy the book but Titus narrating makes it sound like the TV series. Excellent choice of all narrators. If this maybe your first MC book, you will be hooked. All of Michael’s books are fantastic. You will spend hours living within Harry and Renee, sweating, laughing, cringing as Harry avoids scrape after bullets. How to go Mike. Lots more to come, I hope

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