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The night fire

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, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson...

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Main Author: Connelly, Michael, 1956- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2019]
Edition: First edition.
Series: Renée Ballard series ; 3.
Harry Bosch series ; 22.
Harry Bosch Universe; 32.
Subjects:
Sigel, Janelle tribute.
Bosch, Harry > Fiction.
Ballard, Renée > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Women detectives > California > Los Angeles > Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Policewomen > Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Summary: 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, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the murder book to Renee Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. That will be their starting point. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigation team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved?
Item Description: Series numbering provided by GoodReads.com.
Physical Description: 405 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780316485616
0316485616
9780316428040
0316428043
9780316428033
0316428035
9780316428057
0316428051
Author Notes: Michael Connelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 21, 1956. He graduated from the University of Florida in 1980 where he majored in journalism and minored in creative writing. After graduation, he worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, specializing in the crime beat. In 1986, he interviewed survivors of a plane crash with two other reporters and the magazine story subsequently written on the crash was on the short list for the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. This story led to a job as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times. After three years there, he began writing his first novel.

His first novel, The Black Echo, was published in 1992 and won the Edgar Award for best first novel. He is the author of the Harry Bosch series, the Jack McEvoy series, and the Mickey Haller series. He has won numerous awards including the Anthony Award, Macavity Award, Shamus Award, Dilys Award, Nero Award, Barry Award, Ridley Award, Maltese Falcon Award (Japan), .38 Caliber Award (France), Grand Prix Award (France), Premio Bancarella Award (Italy), and the Pepe Carvalho Award (Spain).

(Bowker Author Biography)

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