When Detective Renée Ballard finds a former LAPD detective hanging around the squad room rifling through cabinets, she joins him in working a cold case, the murder of a teenage prostitute nine years earlier.  She juggles her usual workload on the night shift to look through old files looking for suspects.  Meanwhile, her new friend, Harry Bosch, sees his other case, and job working part-time for the San Fernando police force, blow up after a colleague gives away the identity of his informant to the gang he’s trying to bust.  Can Bosch stay ahead of the gang that is trying to kill him?  And can he and Ballard find out what happened to a young girl nine years ago?

Michael Connelly wasted no time in getting his new character, Renée Ballard, intertwined with Harry Bosch, the detective he introduced in 1992, in Dark Sacred Night., the second entry in Ballard’s series and the 21st in Bosch’s.  After getting introduced to Ballard, and Connelly, two months ago, this was my first time interacting with the book version of Bosch.  It looks like the two characters go hand in hand going forward, so it looks like I’ll be getting more exposure in the future.