Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard Book 2)

Detective Renée Ballard works the night shift at Hollywood Station when she discovers retired detective Harry Bosch searching through old file cabinets. He is investigating a cold case that has consumed him. Though Ballard cannot allow him access to department records, she becomes intrigued and begins looking into the case herself, feeling compelled by the details. The case involves the unsolved murder of Daisy Clayton, a fifteen-year-old runaway killed on Hollywood's streets. Her body was left in a dumpster. Ballard decides to join Bosch in pursuing the investigation and finding Daisy's killer. As the two detectives work together, they develop a fragile trust, though their partnership faces strain when the case takes an unexpected and dangerous turn. The novel brings Ballard and Bosch together for the first time in a story that unfolds with momentum as they work to solve Daisy's murder and bring her killer to justice.