Maybe I wasn’t in the mood, but it really took me some time to get into this book. Or maybe I’ve been reading a bit too much lately.  ???  And then this one got a bit too gritty in places.  ???  Once I got warmed up the book was fine, but it took almost half the book! 

The Waiting
by Michael Connelly, 2024
Read by a small cast
Rating: A / crime thriller-procedural

Anyway,  Michael Connelly’s new crime thriller is the 6th in the Ballard and Bosch series. Harry Bosch retired from the LAPD awhile back and Renée Ballard came on the scene as a detective and is now assigned to the Cold but Open Cases. Harry is very ill with leukemia added to cancer, but he helps Renée in an advisory capacity, as much as he can.  And we have Bosch’s adult daughter Madeleine on the scene looking toward her dad as she works her way up in the LAPD. This case involves a serial rapist and murderer.