The Late Show by Michael Connelly
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The Late Show
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Katherine Moennig
- Series: Ballard and Bosch, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction
Publisher’s Summary
A compelling thriller introducing a driven young detective trying to prove herself in the LAPD.
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.
©2017 Hieronymous, Inc (P)2017 Hachette Audio
Anonymous User
Good book, boring narrator
Die Sprecherin ist leider zum einschlafen, aber das Buch und die neue Hauptcharakterin machen Spaß
THOMAS
Bosch with no safe place
In the Bosch novels he always preserves some kind of safe place, but in this novel MC had chosen to explore someone without that, someone who is spiritually homeless. There is still an awkwardness in this novel construct which makes it difficult to bear at times but it shows great promise as the start of a series.
The voice actress is very good, but there just such a relentlessness to the story that it becomes difficult to bear. If you are British-y (as some Americans also are) you will enjoy her un-stagey, underplayed delivery.
Not all the best, this one, but very promising, hope MC persists with this as series