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Renée Ballard has spent her career on the night shift in Hollywood, turning over every case she starts to her day‑shift colleagues. After filing a sexual‑harassment complaint against a supervisor, she was reassigned to the same beat in punishment. But when a prostitute is left for dead in a parking lot and a young woman is killed in a nightclub shooting, Ballard refuses to let the investigations go to the next shift. Against orders and her partner’s wishes, she works both cases day and night, determined to close them before dawn. As the two cases intertwine, she confronts her own demons and the reasons she will not give up her job, no matter what the department throws at her.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Michael Connelly
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