The Dark Hours

New Year's Eve in Hollywood, and Detective Renée Ballard is working the graveyard shift as the city empties its guns into the sky. Minutes after midnight she catches a body: a man killed by a single round in the middle of a crowded street party. The bullet could not have fallen from the sky — and it ties back to an old, unsolved case once worked by a retired detective named Harry Bosch.

Ballard is also hunting the Midnight Men, a pair of serial rapists who strike on holidays and vanish without a trace. Running two investigations at once inside an LAPD hollowed out by the pandemic and low morale, she reaches for the one detective she still trusts. Together, Ballard and Bosch pull at the threads where old crimes and new ones intersect — while the predators they are chasing prove willing to kill to stay hidden.

The fourth Renée Ballard novel, and the twenty-third in the wider Harry Bosch sequence, is a tense, timely Los Angeles procedural about two generations of detectives who refuse to look away.