The Dark Hours (Renée Ballard, #4; Harry Bosch, #23; Harry Bosch Universe, #36)

by Michael Connelly

Where a few dark hours changed everything about every hour that would come after. The place that only the people who had been through it understood. Life was never the same.

was said that anyone who wanted to know Los Angeles needed to drive Sunset Boulevard from Beginning to Beach. It was the route by which a traveler would come to know everything that is L.A.: its culture and glories as well as its many fissures and failings.

It sometimes seemed to her as though the biggest barricades in the so-called justice system were on the inside, before you even got out the door.