Michael Connelly

Ballard continues to bring Michael Connelly’s bestselling novels to life, following Detective Renée Ballard (Q) as she leads the LAPD’s new and underfunded cold case division, tackling the city’s most challenging long-forgotten crimes with empathy and relentless determination. As she peels back layers of crimes spanning decades, including a serial killer’s string of murders and a murdered John Doe, she soon uncovers a dangerous conspiracy within the LAPD. With the help of her volunteer team and retired detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver), Detective Ballard navigates personal trauma, professional challenges, and life-threatening dangers to expose the truth.

The first 5 books featuring Renée Ballard are available in Kindle Unlimited in the USA and Canada until August 1. Get ready for the new TV series by catching up with the books.

Included books are: The Late Show (2017), Dark Sacred Night (2018), The Night Fire (2019), The Dark Hours (2021), and Desert Star (2022).

Thank you for making Nightshade a #1 New York Times bestseller, and a bestseller in the UK and Canada and Australia, as well! Thank you for reading, and for sharing your enthusiasm for the book. Thank you for all your comments and emails. We are so happy to know you are enjoying Detective Stilwell and the other new characters in the new setting of Catalina Island. 

Read reviews and an excerpt. Listen to an audiobook clip. Watch videos with Michael. Read a Q&A. Find out how to get a signed copy. See photos of many of the real places mentioned in the book. Basically, everything you need to learn all about Michael’s new book and new lead character.

All 10 episodes will be available on July 9. Click to read more and see more images.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been “exiled” to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor—a Jane Doe identifiable at first only by a streak of purple dye in her hair. At the same time, a report of poaching on a protected reserve turns into a case fraught with violence and danger as Stilwell digs into the shady past of an island bigwig.