Renee Ballard · Book 4
The Dark Hours
- Published
- 9 November 2021
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780316485647
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Dark Hours arrived November 2021, two years after The Night Fire, as the fourth book at 400 pages, continuing Renée Ballard's late-show cases as an insomniac, paddle-boarding detective with a deep grudge against departmental politics.
Its place in Renee Ballard
The Dark Hours is book 4 in the Renee Ballard series. It follows The Night Fire. It is followed by Desert Star. See the full Renee Ballard reading order.
Renee Ballard is the detective Michael Connelly built for modern Los Angeles. Once a rising star in LAPD Robbery-Homicide, she was exiled to Hollywood Division's overnight "late show" after reporting a supervisor for sexual harassment — and losing the fight. Working the hours when nobody watches, Ballard refuses to hand her cases off at dawn: a paddle-boarding, beach-sleeping insomniac with a K-9 companion and a deep grudge against departmental politics, she closes what the day shift won't touch. Her 2017 debut…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316485647
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781549107696