Desert Star

The Bosch series is pretty consistently good, but I've really enjoyed the addition of Renee Ballard to the overarching series, because their dynamic is really good. The previous one was actually my least favorite of the series, but Desert Star is a return to form. This is just good old fashioned crime fiction done well. Bosch is one of my favorite non-fantasy protagonists.

One aspect I don't see talked about is the audiobooks. Maybe it's just on my mind because of the very end of this book, but I've never seen audiobooks done the way the Bosch universe does them. The actor who plays Bosch on the show, Titus Welliver, went back and recorded some of the older Bosch books and now does all the Bosch audio. The voice actress who does the Ballard books also does Renee Ballard. So these collab books have trading viewpoints, but the dialogue of the opposite character is always done by the respective voice actor (so Titus will voice Bosch in Renee's POV chapters) and Connolly has a third series, the Lincoln Lawyer, which also crosses over occasionally. This book had that character in for a single conversation and they brought in the voice actor for those books to do like 10 lines. I just really like this approach. I wish more series did it.

8/10