Let’s check out The Late Show by Michael Connelly for Book Beginnings on Fridays.
Book Beginnings is a fun meme hosted by Rose City Reader blog. To participate, share the first sentence or so of a novel you are reading and your thoughts about it. When you are finished, add your URL to the Book Beginnings page linked above. Hope to see you there!
The Late Show*by Michael Connelly
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Book Jacket Blurb: Renée Ballard is a police detective who works the midnight shift, catching new cases but never getting the opportunity to see them through because they are passed on to the day shift. That is until she and her partner are sent to the hospital to check on a badly beaten prostitute and a young waitress who was shot in a bar fight. Renee senses these are important cases and decides to follow the investigations to the end. Can she obtain justice for the victims no one else cares about?
First Sentence of The Late Show:
Ballard and Jenkins rolled up to the house on El Centro shortly before midnight, It was the first call of the shift.
Discussion:
Michael Connelly has written some intriguing first lines for his novels. This one answers who, where, and when in just a few words.
He also tends to torture his main characters with workplace problems. In this case, Renée Ballard is working the midnight shift because she had accused her supervisor of sexual harassment and the supervisor demoted her.
What do you think? Would you keep reading? Are you a fan of Michael Connelly?
I’m a fan. Read a number of the Harry Bosch series, but not this one, I don’t think. Looks great. Thanks for sharing.
This one doesn’t have Bosch in it. His next, coming out in October 2018, features both Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch.
It has been too long since I read this author. I have also watched a little of Bosch on Amazon Prime, as my daughter-in-law loves it.
Thanks for sharing…and tempting me. Here’s mine: “THREE THINGS ABOUT ELSIE”
I’ve never read this author. It sounds like I should give him and this series a try. This week I have As Death Draws Near by Anna Lee Huber – a historical mystery. Happy reading!
I like Michael Connelly’s style of writing and have read a few of the Harry Bosch series, although not all of them by any means and definitely not in any order!
As this is the beginning of a totally new character and series, I might actually try getting in at the ground level and keeping up with it.
Thanks for featuring this book, I wouldn’t have known about the new series otherwise.
Happy Reading 🙂
Yvonne
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I’ve not read anything by Michael Connelly, but it seems like I need to! This sounds great! Happy reading! Hope you have a wonderful weekend! 🙂
Bound to be a good story because of the author. Enjoy!
I don’t read a lot of crime fiction or police procedurals. But I do like the conciseness of the opening line. See what we’re featuring at Girl Who Reads