# The Dark Hours - Hardcover

by **Michael Connelly** (Author)

**A _Wall Street Journal_ and _South Florida Sun-Sentinel_ Best Book of the Year**

"A masterpiece"--LAPD detective Renée Ballard must join 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_).

### Author Biography

**Michael Connelly** is the author of thirty-five previous novels, including the _New York Times_ bestsellers _The Law of Innocence__,_ _Fair Warning__,_ and _The Night Fire_. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of _Bosch__,_ starring Titus Welliver, and the creator and host of the podcasts _Murder Book and The Wonderland Murders._ He spends his time in California and Florida.

**Number of Pages:** 512

**Dimensions:** 1.73 x 9.37 x 6.38 IN

**Publication Date:** November 09, 2021

**Large Print:** Yes

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