listened on Audible
2017, Little Brown Co.
405 pgs.
Adult Murder Mystery/Police Procedural
Finished 9/7/2017
Goodreads rating: 4.06
My rating: 4
Setting: Contemporary LA
First line/s: "Ballard and Jenikins rolled up on the house on El Centro shortly before midnight."
My comments: Renee Ballard is a smart, aggressive, bend-the-rules detective in the Los Angeles police department. I can't say I really liked her, but I think it's the way that the reader's voice gave her personality - or lack thereof. Much of it was read in a monotone. If I'd been reading it myself I would've definitely put different stresses to the words and I think it would've changed Renee's personality for me completely. The cases were cleverly conceived by Mr. Connelly and incredibly captivating. Excellent characters, interesting lifestyle for the protagonist, super setting. I only drove around LA twice, but I can see it in my head as he describes it. Yes, a good murder mystery of which there will hopefully be more.
Goodreads synopsis: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, a new 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.
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