The Late Show: Inspiration for the hit Amazon Prime series BALLARD

The Late Show introduces a terrific female character . . . The pacing is breathless . . . Connelly expertly hides a trail of bread crumbs that leads straight to the denouement, with so much else going on that it's impossible to see where he's heading
First there was Detective Harry Bosch, then Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller, and now comes Renee Ballard, ace thriller writer Michael Connelly's first new protagonist in ten years. A nail-bitingly exciting investigation featuring a finely realised new character from one of America's finest contemporary novelists
'A characteristically complex tale of murder and police corruption' (Thriller of the Week)
Classy and clever, with a tenacious heroine
The Late Show reads like a Bosch novel, as Connelly braids multiple investigations into his plot, driving the story onward ... Ballard is significantly more than a Bosch replacement or clone - an absorbing character on her own terms. Connelly has created yet another potentially iconic tarnished knight of those perennially mean streets

Michael Connelly is the author of twenty-nine previous novels, including the #1New York TimesbestsellersThe Wrong Side of GoodbyeandThe Crossing.His books, which include the Harry Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series, have sold more than sixty million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels and is the executive producer ofBosch, starring Titus Welliver. He spends his time in California and Florida.