{"id":22321,"date":"2024-12-29T04:53:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T10:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22321"},"modified":"2024-12-28T15:14:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T21:14:18","slug":"book-61-of-52-dark-sacred-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/book-61-of-52-dark-sacred-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 61 (of 52) \u2013 Dark Sacred Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22322\" style=\"width: 338px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darksacrednight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22322\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22322\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darksacrednight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darksacrednight.jpg 328w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/darksacrednight-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dark Sacred Night &#8211; Michael Connelly<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When Detective Ren\u00e9e 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.\u00a0 She juggles her usual workload on the night shift to look through old files looking for suspects.\u00a0 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&#8217;s trying to bust.\u00a0 Can Bosch stay ahead of the gang that is trying to kill him?\u00a0 And can he and Ballard find out what happened to a young girl nine years ago?<\/p>\n<p>Michael Connelly wasted no time in getting his new character, Ren\u00e9e Ballard, intertwined with Harry Bosch, the detective he introduced in 1992, in <em>Dark Sacred Night<\/em>., the second entry in Ballard&#8217;s series and the 21st in Bosch&#8217;s.\u00a0 After getting introduced to Ballard, and Connelly, two months ago, this was my first time interacting with the book version of Bosch.\u00a0 It looks like the two characters go hand in hand going forward, so it looks like I&#8217;ll be getting more exposure in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Detective Ren\u00e9e 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.\u00a0 She juggles her usual workload on the night shift to look through old files looking for suspects.\u00a0 Meanwhile, her new friend, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[11694,11695,11634],"class_list":["post-22321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-dark-sacred-night","tag-harry-bosch","tag-michael-connelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22323,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22321\/revisions\/22323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}