Desert Star, Michael Connelly
Desert Star, Michael Connelly
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Desert Star

Bestseller

Author: Michael Connelly

Narrator: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin, Peter Giles

Unabridged: 9 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/08/2022


Synopsis

LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch’s “white whale”—a man responsible for the murder of an entire family.

A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving “the Late Show” to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division.

For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that haunts him—the murder of an entire family by a psychopath who still walks free. Ballard makes Bosch an offer: come volunteer as an investigator in her new Open-Unsolved Unit, and he can pursue his “white whale” with the resources of the LAPD behind him.

First priority for Ballard is to clear the unsolved rape and murder of a sixteen-year-old girl. The decades-old case is essential to the councilman who supported re-forming the unit, and who could shutter it again—the victim was his sister. When Ballard gets a “cold hit” connecting the killing to a similar crime, proving that a serial predator has been at work in the city for years, the political pressure has never been higher. To keep momentum going, she must pull Bosch off his all-consuming investigation, the case that is the consummation of his lifelong mission.

The two must put aside old resentments and new tensions to run to ground not one but two dangerous killers who have operated with brash impunity. In what may be his most gripping and profoundly moving book yet, Michael Connelly shows once again why he has been dubbed “one of the greatest crime writers of all time” (Ryan Steck, Crimereads). Find out what happens next by downloading the audiobook Desert Walk by Michael Connelly now.

Author Bio

Author Michael Connelly was born in Philadelphia PA in 1956. His genre of choice are crime fiction and thrillers. The term "detectiveis used to describe many of his works, such as those featuring LAPD Detective HieronymusBosch or criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. Most every reader is familiar with those characters. A fun fact is that Connelly recreated a lot of publicity when President Bill Clinton was exiting a bookstore carrying the Connelly novel, "The Concrete Blonde "Harry novels

Connelly wrote which was adapted to film with Cline Eastwood as director and playing the lead actor as character FBI agent Terry McCabe. The book and movie were based on the "survivorsthat a person has after a heart transplant. s interest in the world of crime investigation come when he was 16 and one night on his way home from working as a dishwasher, he witnessed a man throwing an object into a hedge. Curious, he retrieved the object which ended up being a gun wrapped in a flannel shirt. A great happening for a future fictional crime novelist.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on November 30, 2022

Wow. This one is a confirmed, “wow.” Full disclosure I am, and always will be, an avid Connelly fan. I bought his first hardcover Black Echo and then every other hardcover since. Connelly is a quiet and magnanimous person. He gave me a great blurb for my first book. I only preface this review, so yo......more

Goodreads review by Paul on November 13, 2022

Ballard heads a makeshift cold case team and presses Bosch into volunteering to help out. Bosch helps with Ballard’s case, but his own unresolved case of a murdered family is forever on his mind. I usually really enjoy Connelly novels and although I did somewhat enjoy this one, I thought this was on......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on June 05, 2023

I love a good crime fiction novel and having recently enjoyed Ian Rankin’s latest book A Heart Full of Headstones featuring his Edinburgh based ex-cop John Rebus, I coincidentally picked this latest offering from Michael Connelly for my next fix. It features, of course, ex-cop Harry Bosch who is sti......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on October 30, 2022

It is always so hard to write a review of a new Michael Connelly book for me. I just want to do him the justice that he deserves. It is no secret that he is a favourite author for me, and I am always excited when a new book is announced and when it arrives, nothing else matters. As the years go on,......more

Goodreads review by Karen on November 26, 2023

There are many things I love about Connelly’s writing, but the key to what always gets me, are his characters – the way he matures them. Bosch gets older, and you feel it, see it and experience it quite honestly through his movements/attitudes. And Ballard grows in her maturity as a cop, and her def......more