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The Late Show (Renée Ballard, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #30)

Michael Connelly

Start date: November 1, 2018

Finish date: November 30, 2018

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Oct 01, 2017 Roger rated it it was amazing

Michael Connelly can write. In The Late Show he brings us a new female detective, Renee Ballard, and I will be honest it took me a little while to warm to her. Usually Connelly's writing is so propulsive I cannot put down one of his books once I start. Not so with this new novel. However Ballard makes the grade-eventually. Things take a little longer to get there but I suppose the extra hundred pages or so I feel were tacked onto this book consisted of introductory material. This apparently is t ...more

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Nov 15, 2018 Aimee rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, crime, murder-mystery, detective, 2018, library

This was a bit of a slow start for me. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something about this took a while for me to connect with Renee. But a third of the way through, the story picks up and the world fell away. Just like any other of Connelly's books. Pure magic.

Sometimes I get tired of the borderline corruption story line. I'm never tired of it in a Connelly book. He has a way of making it important to the story, not just an easy plot device used to throw conflict at a character and late ...more

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