![]() It’s all hands on deck on New Year’s Eve and it’s patently obvious that Moore wants to be somewhere else, but notwithstanding the gunfire the two cops are on the lookout for a pair of serial rapists they’ve dubbed the Midnight Men, whose MO includes them striking on holiday weekends – and just after midnight, as their nickname suggests. ![]() We’re approaching midnight on 31 December, 2020, and across the city Los Angelenos are getting ready to say goodbye to a year everyone wants to forget, and to welcome in the new – many of them marking the occasion by shooting their weapons into the air.īallard and Detective Lisa Moore of the Hollywood Division Sexual Assault Unit are sheltering under the Cahuenga overpass until the rain of lead ceases. The pandemic, masks and the wearing of them, defunding the police, George Floyd, electric cars, lockdown hair, vaccinations, even the storming of the Capitol building in January of this year all find a place within the pages of The Dark Hours.Īs the story begins, Renee Ballard is on high alert. At first glance it seems all too obvious – after all, the main protagonist, LAPD Detective Renee Ballard, is on permanent night duty, working the graveyard shift in Hollywood Division.īut this book is set very much in the here and now, and what dark hours we have all been living through recently! Alongside a cracking good crime yarn, former journalist Michael Connelly can’t resist some astute moments of social commentary. ![]() Here at Crime Fiction Lover we love a clever book title, and this one is a case in point.
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