Over the years the characters have evolved and, at the same time, so has Connelly’s writing. The stories are still procedural police crime stories and the problems of the “system” are ever-present, but the books have strong thematic elements and we find ourselves caught up in the investigation, following Ballard and Bosch’s journey to bring justice to a few vulnerable victims of crime. In an era of calls for “defunding the police”, sometimes fiction reminds us that we still need champions on our side. 4.6 out of 5.0 stars4.6

“The dark side of the moon was where people lived who had been through what Cindy Carpenter had just been through. Where a few dark hours changed everything about every hour that would come after. The place that only the people who had been through it understood. Life was never the same.”