Used book – The Desert Star, Michael Connelly

After leaving the LAPD, plagued by misogyny, defeatism, and bureaucracy, Renée Ballard takes over the recently reformed Cold Case Unit. She recruits police stars and asks Harry Bosch, now retired, to help her solve the case of two young women killed in the same way ten years apart. Bosch can't refuse: with all the LAPD's resources, perhaps he can take advantage of it to catch the psychopath who murdered an entire family in the Mojave Desert and was never found. While he respects Ballard, Bosch resents her authority, and this could jeopardize their work. And the killers, for their part, have no intention of being caught after all these years of impunity. Especially since for Ballard, and especially for Bosch, time is running out...

A poignant and twilight crime novel. Philippe Blanchet, Le Figaro magazine.

There is Connelly's touch, which we happily find again. Bertrand Bouard, L'Express.

Translated from English (United States) by Robert Pépin.