The Night Fire

by Michael Connelly

Book Overview

Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Ren?e Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor in this New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.
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 Ren?e Ballard and asks her to help him discover what about this crime lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. As she begins her inquiries -- 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538733722
• ISBN13: 9781538733721
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Michael Connelly hits another Home Run!

I’ve read everything Connelly has written. This new one reunites Bosch and Detective Renee Ballard and it’s another page-turner on a par with his best efforts. Now I’ll have to wait another year till we get a new one. Happily, I’ve got about five other police/thriller writers to keep me occupied.