TY - BOOK AU - Connelly, Michael, TI - The night fire T2 - A Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch novel SN - 9780316485616 AV - PS3553.O51165 N54 2019 U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2019/// CY - New York, New York : PB - Little, Brown and Co., KW - Bosch, Harry KW - Ballard, Renée (Fictitious character) KW - Women detectives KW - California KW - Los Angeles KW - Fiction KW - Cold cases (Criminal investigation) KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Policewomen KW - fast KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft KW - Thrillers (Fiction) N1 - Series numbering provided by GoodReads.com N2 - Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the murder book to Renee Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. That will be their starting point. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigation team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved? ER -