In this "masterpiece," LAPD detective Renée Ballard joins forces with
Harry Bosch to find justice in a city scarred by fear and social unrest
after a methodical killer strikes on New Year's Eve (Publishers
Weekly).
There's chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year's Eve countdown.
Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the
traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into
the air. Only minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to a scene where
a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the
middle of a crowded street party.
Ballard quickly concludes that the deadly bullet could not have fallen
from the sky and that it is linked to another unsolved murder--a case at
one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. At the same time, Ballard
hunts a fiendish pair of serial rapists, the Midnight Men, who have been
terrorizing women and leaving no trace.
Determined to solve both cases, Ballard feels like she is constantly
running uphill in a police department indelibly changed by the pandemic
and recent social unrest. It is a department so hampered by inertia and
low morale that Ballard must go outside to the one detective she can
count on: Harry Bosch. But as the two inexorable detectives work
together to find out where old and new cases intersect, they must
constantly look over their shoulders. The brutal predators they are
tracking are ready to kill to keep their secrets hidden.
Unfolding with unstoppable drive and nail-biting intrigue, The Dark
Hours shows that "relentless on their own, Ballard's and Bosch's
combined skills...could be combustible" (Los Angeles Times).
