First published 2017
Detective Renée Ballard works Hollywood's night shift, starting investigations she never gets to finish. Each dawn brings the same routine: pass her cases to the day detectives and head home. The department assigned her this dead-end beat after she filed sexual harassment charges against her supervisor. Then two cases land on her desk that change everything. A prostitute lies beaten nearly to death in a parking lot. A young woman dies in a nightclub shooting. Ballard knows she should follow protocol and transfer both files at sunrise. Instead, she makes a choice that puts her career on the line. She works the cases during her off hours while still pulling night shifts. The investigations draw her deeper into the violence that defines her beat. They also force her to confront the personal demons that keep her fighting for a job that seems determined to break her.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, career-woman, enemies-to-lovers, personal-demons
Setting: Hollywood
Period: 21st-century
387 pages · Kindle Edition · Little, Brown and Company
Content warnings: abuse, sexual-assault, violence