Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Rene Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Boschs mentor in this New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. 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 and his widow gives Bosch a murder book one that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD twenty years before the unsolved killing of a troubled young man. Bosch takes the murder book to Detective Rene Ballard and asks her to help him discover what about this crime lit Thompsons fire all those years ago. As she begins her inquiries while still working her own cases on the midnight shift Ballad finds aspects of the initial investigation that just dont add up. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigation team. And they soon arrive at a disturbing question Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement or to make sure it never got solved Written with the intense pacing and masterful suspense that have made Michael Connelly the hardboiled fiction master of our time NPR The Night Fire continues the unofficial partnership of two fierce detectives determined not to let the fire with burn out. show more