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The Late Show

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781409147558

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 25th January 2018

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery

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CRIME NEVER SLEEPS.


‘CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR’ Daily Mail

ONE OF AMAZON’S BEST MYSTERY/THRILLERS OF THE YEAR

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Detective Renée Ballard works ‘The Late Show’, the notorious graveyard shift at the LAPD.

It’s thankless work for a once-promising detective, keeping strange hours in a twilight world of crime.

Some nights are worse than others. And tonight is the worst yet.

Two shocking cases, hours apart: a brutal assault, and a multiple murder with no suspects.

Ballard knows it is always darkest before dawn. But what she doesn’t know – yet – is how deep her investigation will take her into the dark heart of her city, the police department and her own past…

The Late Show will keep you up all night: it’s time to meet Detective Renée Ballard.

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‘The new novel from America’s greatest living crime writer is a gripping thrill ride that will entrance you and keep you reading until the small hours’ Daily Express

‘It has been more than ten years since Connelly, one of the world’s greatest crime writers, last launched a major new character. Superb storytelling – this cements Connelly’s place at the very top of the crime-writing tree’ Daily Mail

‘Classy and clever, with a tenacious heroine’ Sunday Mirror

‘Connelly achieves an enormous amount in these pages: he creates a new character who immediately leaps into life; and controls a complex, fast-paced plot full of surprises’ Evening Standard

The Late Show introduces a terrific female character: Detective Renée Ballard. The pacing is breathless … Ballard has astonishing resourcefulness and bravery – she is complicated and driven’ New York Times

‘Although the usual Connelly fingerprints are in evidence here – the real achievement is the creation of his tenacious heroine, Ballard’ Guardian

‘Ballard is significantly more than a Bosch replacement or clone – an absorbing character on her own terms. Connelly has created yet another potentially iconic tarnished knight of those perennially mean streets’ Irish Times

‘A characteristically complex tale of murder and police corruption’ Mail on Sunday (Thriller of the Week)

‘First there was Detective Harry Bosch, then Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller, and now comes Renee Ballard, ace thriller writer Michael Connelly’s first new protagonist in 10 years. A nail-bitingly exciting investigation featuring a finely realised new character from one of America’s finest contemporary novelists’ Irish Independent

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The Late Show introduces a terrific female character . . . The pacing is breathless . . . Connelly expertly hides a trail of bread crumbs that leads straight to the denouement, with so much else going on that it's impossible to see where he's heading
New York Times
First there was Detective Harry Bosch, then Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller, and now comes Renee Ballard, ace thriller writer Michael Connelly's first new protagonist in ten years. A nail-bitingly exciting investigation featuring a finely realised new character from one of America's finest contemporary novelists
Irish Independent
'A characteristically complex tale of murder and police corruption' (Thriller of the Week)
Mail on Sunday
The Late Show reads like a Bosch novel, as Connelly braids multiple investigations into his plot, driving the story onward ... Ballard is significantly more than a Bosch replacement or clone - an absorbing character on her own terms. Connelly has created yet another potentially iconic tarnished knight of those perennially mean streets
Irish Times
Classy and clever, with a tenacious heroine
Sunday Mirror