# The Late Show

**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  
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'_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  
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'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  
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'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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- **Type:** Michael Connelly

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