A drug drop at a mountain airstrip on Catalina Island goes wrong, and Detective Sergeant Stilwell is sidelined while it is investigated. Michael Connelly's second Catalina novel sends him after the truth anyway.
Readical Key Points
- Book 2 of the Catalina novels; LAPD detective Renée Ballard joins the case
- An instant New York Times bestseller, according to the publisher
- Starred reviews from Booklist and Library Journal; also reviewed in Kirkus Reviews
- Hardcover, 336 pages, Little, Brown and Company, 2026
Stilwell's posting sits twenty-two miles off the coast of Los Angeles County, far enough to feel safe to most of the island's residents. A tip puts him and his deputies on the Airport in the Sky as a night flight lands; the handoff collapses, shots ring out on the airstrip, and the plane gets away. Benched pending an internal review, Stilwell starts digging into the failed deal on his own.
Confined to the substation, he turns up an unclaimed backpack among the lost property that belonged to a woman who vanished on a hike four years earlier, and the trail leads to Renée Ballard of the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit. Working from the island and the mainland, they find themselves tracking someone who enjoys taunting investigators. It suits readers of Connelly's Ballard and Bosch books. The drug case put Stilwell on the bench; a hiker's lost backpack gives him a case to work anyway.
About the Author
Michael Connelly has written more than forty novels, including the Harry Bosch, Lincoln Lawyer, Renée Ballard and Catalina books. A former newspaper reporter, he has been honored for both his reporting and his fiction and has served as executive producer of the television series Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, The Lincoln Lawyer and Ballard.
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