A FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR
A CrimeReads Best Crime Novel Notable selection** **
Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective** **Renée Ballard come together again on
the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor, the man who trained
him---new from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael
Connelly
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Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an
inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light
the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack
Thompson, is dead, and his widow gives Bosch a murder book, one that
Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD twenty years before -- the
unsolved killing of a troubled young man.
Bosch takes the murder book to Detective Renée Ballard and asks her to
help him discover what about this crime lit Thompson's fire all those
years ago. As she begins her inqueries -- while still working her own
cases on the midnight shift -- Ballad finds aspects of the initial
investigation that just don't add up.
The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable
investigation team. And they soon arrive at a disturbing question: Did
Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to
make sure it never got solved?
Written with the intense pacing and masterful suspense that have made
Michael Connelly "the hard-boiled fiction master of our time" (NPR),
The Night Fire continues the unofficial partnership of two fierce
detectives determined not to let the fire with burn out.
