{"product_id":"the-late-show-1","title":"The Late Show","description":"\u003cp\u003eCRIME NEVER SLEEPS.\u003cbr\u003e\n                    'CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR' Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003eONE OF AMAZON'S BEST MYSTERY\/THRILLERS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003e* * * * *Detective Renee Ballard works 'The Late Show', the notorious graveyard shift at the LAPD.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n                    \u003cp\u003eIt's thankless work for a once-promising detective, keeping strange hours in a twilight world of crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003eSome nights are worse than others. And tonight is the worst yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003eTwo shocking cases, hours apart: a brutal assault, and a multiple murder with no suspects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003eBallard knows it is always darkest before dawn. But what she doesn't know - yet - is how deep her investigation will take her into the dark heart of her city, the police department and her own past...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003eThe Late Show will keep you up all night: it's time to meet Detective Renee Ballard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003e* * * * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003e'The new novel from America's greatest living crime writer is a gripping thrill ride that will entrance you and keep you reading until the small hours' Daily Express\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003e'It has been more than ten years since Connelly, one of the world's greatest crime writers, last launched a major new character. Superb storytelling - this cements Connelly's place at the very top of the crime-writing tree' Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003e'Classy and clever, with a tenacious heroine' Sunday Mirror\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003e'Connelly achieves an enormous amount in these pages: he creates a new character who immediately leaps into life; and controls a complex, fast-paced plot full of surprises' Evening Standard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003e'The Late Show introduces a terrific female character: Detective Renee Ballard. The pacing is breathless ... Ballard has astonishing resourcefulness and bravery - she is complicated and driven' New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003e'Although the usual Connelly fingerprints are in evidence here - the real achievement is the creation of his tenacious heroine, Ballard' Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003e'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' Irish Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003e'A characteristically complex tale of murder and police corruption' Mail on Sunday (Thriller of the Week)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                    \u003cp\u003e'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 10 years. A nail-bitingly exciting investigation featuring a finely realised new character from one of America's finest contemporary novelists' Irish Independent\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42973126328486,"sku":"9781409147558","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9781409147558_1.jpg?v=1656046432","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/the-late-show-1","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}