The Late ShowAuthor: Michael Connelly Language: English Binding: Paperback Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Imprint: Orion Pages: 400 Los Angeles can be a dangerous city never more so than in the dead of night. Detective Rene Ballard, once one of the department's young hotshots, now works 'The Late Show', the graveyard shift at the LAPD. It's a thankless job keeping strange hours in a twilight world of tragedy and violence, handing over her investigations as the