The Late Show

Michael Connelly has an envious career–sixty million books sold, multiple series, and he crushes all of them. Now that Harry Bosch is retired, Connelly wasn't about to hang up his keyboard. He just keeps going. I'm pretty sure that Connelly could die and his corpse could still crank out a novella on muscle-memory alone. So, Connelly needs a new hero: Enter Renee Ballard.

Gritty, tough, and no-nonsense with a surfer's soul, Ballard is a worthy successor to Harry Bosch. “The Late Show” is a solid debut, and I'm excited to see more of her.