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Book Review: The Last Show by Michael Connolly. Meet Connolly's newest character Renee Ballard! (Release Date 11th July 2017)

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Available on Amazon Click  here First we had Bosch, then we had Haller... now we have the deliciously different Renee Ballard.   Renee Ballard is a Hawaiian  surf/paddle freak.  She lives with her rescued dog in a van which she parks up near the coast, snatching a few hours sleep in her pop up tent before starting the late shift at LAPD.   Ballard is as addictive as Bosch yet she's very different.  Her back story has ended her up working the late shift with a partner who counts the hours till morning so he can get back to nursing his ill wife.  Ballard, like Bosch has principles and is stubbornly committed to maintaining them.  As The Late Show begins, Ballard and her partner are called to the scene of a brutal attack on a transgender woman in a less than salubrious side of town. meanwhile a shooting at a night club with five dead piques Renee's interest.  mainly because her ex -partner, who betrayed her before, and his b...