Desert Star (novel)

Desert Star is the 37th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the twenty-fourth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. The book was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2022.

Oline H. Cogdill of the Sun Sentinel called the novel "superb" and praised its "heart-wrenching" ending.^[1] Chris Hewitt of the Minnesota Star Tribune wrote: "Both cases are absorbing and Ballard's outings with Bosch have made her a sharper (and crankier) character."^[2] A review in Kirkus Reviews opined that of the two murder cases featured in the novel, the Pearlman cases is "considerably more interesting—partly because the break that leads the unit to a surprising new suspect turns out to be both fraught and misleading, partly because identifying the killer is only the beginning of Bosch's problems", while the Gallagher case is "more heartfelt but less wily and dramatic." The review concluded that the novel is "Not the best of Connelly's procedurals, but nobody else does them better than his second-best."^[3]