Finished We 4/22/2020
I ordered this from Amazon and received it on Th 1/2/20. This is the penultimate book in the Bosch series, and I finished it on We 4/22/2020.
Like all of the series there are a few cases highlighted, but the biggest case concerns a young woman named Daisy who was was murdered nine years earlier. Harry Bosch is working part time for the San Fernando Police in their Cold Case section.
A mother, Elizabeth, lost her her daughter, Daisy to murder and Harry agreed to help catch her killer. Elizabeth, a recovering addict, is living in Bosch's house (as a roommate) and she's deeply indebted to Harry. However, she leaves late in the novel and is found dead of an overdose.
This case is the cornerstone case of this novel. The serial killer was a 'cleaner' for the LA police department. He ran an outfit that cleaned up after brutal homicides or suicides and he had a 'rape/kidnapping' cage in the back of his van.
Rene Ballard is a very sharp detective working 'the late show' (third shift) for the Hollywood division. She's an avid surfer and most days sleeps on the beach in a temp with her dog guarding the area.
In the end of the book she and Bosch decide to collaborate and get the bad guys off the street. Bosch's pension is probably more than Rene makes, so he can work without compensation.
There might even be a romantic connection in the future.
A review from the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/two-loner-detectives-find-each-other-in-michael-connellys-darkly-brilliant-new-novel/2018/10/30/11c411fe-dbd1-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html
From the book's page at Amazon:
Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD Detective Renée Ballard to face the unsolved murder of a runaway, and the fight to bring a killer to justice.
Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat -- known in LAPD slang as "the late show" -- and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin.
Ballard can't let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has never been the kind of cop who leaves the job behind at the end of her shift -- and she wants in.
The murder, unsolved, was of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally killed, her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now Ballard joins forces with Bosch to find out what happened to Daisy, and to finally bring her killer to justice. Along the way, the two detectives forge a fragile trust, but this new partnership is put to the test when the case takes an unexpected and dangerous turn.
Dark Sacred Night for the first time brings together these two powerhouse detectives in a riveting story that unfolds with furious momentum. And it shows once more why "there's no doubt Connelly is a master of crime fiction".
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