The waiting / Michael Connelly.

By:

Connelly, Michael, 1956- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Connelly, Michael, Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch novel ; Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024Edition: Large print edition; First editionDescription: 519 pages (large print) ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780316580793
0316580791

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DDC classification:

813/.54 23

LOC classification:

PS3553.O51165 W35 2024b

Summary: Reéne Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles. Meanwhile, Ballard's badge, gun, and ID are stolen--a theft she can't report without giving her enemies in the department ammunition to end her career as a detective. She works the burglary alone, but her mission draws her into unexpected danger. With no choice but to go outside the department for help, she knocks on the door of Harry Bosch. At the same time, Ballard takes on a new volunteer to the cold case unit: Bosch's daughter Maddie, now a patrol officer. But Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the city's library of lost souls--a case that may be the most iconic in the city's history. -- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Large Type Collection	New Books	LT CON	Checked out	12/17/2025	36748002614636

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this instant New York Times bestseller, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: patrol officer Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter.

Renée Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet two decades ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the City of Angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles.

Meanwhile, Ballard's badge, gun, and ID are stolen--a theft she can't report without giving her enemies in the department ammunition to end her career as a detective. She works the burglary alone, but her mission draws her into unexpected danger. With no choice but to go outside the department for help, she knocks on the door of Harry Bosch.

At the same time, Ballard takes on a new volunteer to the cold case unit: Bosch's daughter Maddie, now a patrol officer. But Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the city's library of lost souls--a case that may be the most iconic in the city's history. Complex, satisfying, and full of dexterous twists, The Waiting demonstrates once more that "you can't do better than Michael Connelly" ( Forbes ).

Reéne Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles. Meanwhile, Ballard's badge, gun, and ID are stolen--a theft she can't report without giving her enemies in the department ammunition to end her career as a detective. She works the burglary alone, but her mission draws her into unexpected danger. With no choice but to go outside the department for help, she knocks on the door of Harry Bosch. At the same time, Ballard takes on a new volunteer to the cold case unit: Bosch's daughter Maddie, now a patrol officer. But Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the city's library of lost souls--a case that may be the most iconic in the city's history. -- Provided by publisher.

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Publishers Weekly Review

At the start of Connelly's unputdownable sixth crime thriller costarring Renée Ballard (after Desert Star), the LAPD detective's badge and gun are stolen from her car while she's surfing. In the process of getting them back, she uncovers evidence that an extremist group is planning a terrorist attack in Malibu and enlists her friend Harry Bosch--still recovering from cancer--and the FBI to thwart it. Meanwhile, Ballard handles a number of high-stakes cases as leader of the LAPD's cold case unit. First, her team of volunteers finds a DNA match that opens the door to solving a string of sexual assaults, dating back 20 years, by the "Pillowcase Rapist." Then Harry's daughter, Maddie, a patrol officer, joins Ballard's team after stumbling on some explosive evidence related to the 1947 Black Dahlia killing, "the most famous unsolved murder in the history of Los Angeles." As always, Connelly brilliantly renders the ins and outs of these investigations, all while adding layers to Ballard's backstory--including a moving subplot about her missing mother--and delivering white-hot suspense guaranteed to please his fans. This ranks with Connelly's best. Agent: Heather Rizzo, Rizzo Literary. (Oct.)

Kirkus Book Review

Renée Ballard's latest outing with the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit begins in the most embarrassing way imaginable before the stakes rise higher and higher. While Ballard is out surfing one morning, someone gets into her car and makes off with her phone, gun, wallet, and badge. Fearing that she'll get tossed off the unit she loves if word gets out, she doesn't report the theft, a decision that considerably complicates her ability to do her job. That's especially awkward because of the cases just over the horizon. Fresh evidence indicates that the Pillowcase Rapist, who murdered his last victim in 2005, may be Superior Court Judge Jonathan Purcell, a man nobody wants to cross. The lifting of Ballard's stuff fits into a larger pattern of thefts from surfing beaches by a pair of lowlifes who were particularly interested in a police badge this time because the guy they worked for had clients who were planning something big and bad. The biggest case of all is landed by Madeline Bosch, the daughter of Ballard's retired mentor Harry Bosch, who uncovers a lead in her very first day as a volunteer on the unit that might just close the most famous unsolved case in the history of Los Angeles by identifying the Black Dahlia killer. Everything will work out fine if Ballard can only hold the emerging details about the Pillowcase Rapist close to her chest, keep her fibs about following established procedures and direct orders from being found out, prevent her boss from tossing Maddie Bosch off the unit when her cold case turns red-hot, and recover her credentials without letting anyone know they're missing. A Hawaiian coda provides the best news of all: This distinguished series has plenty of miles to go. Aloha, and hooray. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.