Dark Sacred Night

Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly, 433 pages.
Detective Renѐe Ballard, introduced in last year's The Late Show, is still working that same late shift in the Hollywood division, when she crosses paths with Harry Bosch, retired from the LAPD, and working part-time for the San Fernando PD. She spots Harry when he is sneaking a look through some old files at the Hollywood station under the pretext of waiting to interview a patrolman about a body found nine years ago. Ballard quickly figures out what Bosch was looking for, and the two of them form a tentative alliance investigating the death of a young runaway. As the story moves along, Bosch makes a couple of decisions that put him in danger and have him wondering if it may be time to finally stop investigating. A good solid story with great characters. I was slow to appreciate Kathleen's comment that this should be savored because now it will be another year before the next book from Connelly. I guess it's a good time to be losing my memory, I'll listen to this on audio in three months or so and see if it surprises me.