The Dark Hours

The definition of a police procedural. So easy to read and so hard to write.

★ ★ ★ 1/2 (rounded up)
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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It was like a bag of popcorn cooking in a microwave. A few pops during the final countdown of the year and then the barrage as the frequency of gunfire made it impossible to separate it into individual discharges. A gunshot symphony. For a solid five minutes, there was an unbroken onslaught as revelers of the new year fired their weapons into the sky following a Los Angeles tradition of decades.

It didn't matter that what goes up must come down. Every new year in the City of Angels began with risk.

The gunfire of course was joined by legitimate fireworks and firecrackers, creating a sound unique to the city and as reliable through the years as the changing of the calendar.

THE DARK HOUS

Isn't it always reassuring to see that no matter what kind of super cop he is, there are cases that Bosch couldn't close?

... this was the new LAPD—officers stripped of the mandate of proactive enforcement and waiting to be reactive, to hit the streets only when it was requested and required, and only then doing the minimum so as not to engender a complaint or controversy.

To Ballard, much of the department had fallen into the pose of a citizen caught in the middle of a bank robbery. Head down, eyes averted, adhering to the warning: nobody move, and nobody gets hurt.

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Buckle your seat belt for this read! No slow parts, fast pace and a page turner! 400 Pages, centers around Renee Ballard with Harry Bosch protecting her back. Two different cases, unrelated keeps this moving along! David N.