The Waiting by Michael Connelly

The Waiting by Michael Connelly

First Paragraph(s):

She liked waiting for the wave more than riding the wave.  Facing the cliffs, straddling the board, her hips finding the up-and-down rhythm of the surface.  Riding it like a horse, making her think about Kaupo Boy when she was a child.  There was a reverence to the movement before the next set came in and it was time to dig down and paddle.  

My Thoughts:

The Waiting is #6 in Michael Connelly's Renee Ballard/Harry Bosch series and I enjoyed it a lot.  I've read all the books in this series and I like how Connelly has managed to keep Bosch involved in police work even though he's retired.  Plus his daughter, Maddie, is now a cop and she comes into the story as a volunteer for Ballard's unit.  Bosch himself has also worked with the 'cold case' unit in another book.  

I've also watched all the TV adaptations of the Bosch storyline and enjoyed those as well.  What I wanted to share is that I understand there will be a new 'Ballard' TV adaptation with Maggie Q playing Renee Ballard and Titus Welliver continuing his role as Harry Bosch.  Filming started last summer - not sure when it will be available for viewing.  Here's a link to some info from the author's website.

Have you read any of the Bosch books or the Ballard/Bosch books?  I've enjoyed them and hope they continue for quite a while.  Also will be interested in knowing how Maddie Bosch will fare in the LAPD as she follows in her father's footsteps.

Blurb:

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: patrol officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.

Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet two decades ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the City of Angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles.

Meanwhile, Ballard’s badge, gun, and ID are stolen—a theft she can’t report without giving her enemies in the department ammunition to end her career as a detective. She works the burglary alone, but her mission draws her into unexpected danger. With no choice but to go outside the department for help, she knocks on the door of Harry Bosch.

At the same time, Ballard takes on a new volunteer to the cold case unit: Bosch’s daughter Maddie, now a patrol officer. But Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the city’s library of lost souls—a case that may be the most iconic in the city’s history.