L.A. Locations in the Novels of Michael Connelly
This blog is about Los Angele locations I have visited that are mentioned in the novels of Michael Connelly
Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly
The location I chose to explore is the neighborhood of
Western and Hollywood, page 110
"Ballard reaffirmed her long-held belief about Hollywood being a final destination for many of society’s freaks and losers."
"This quote captures Ballard’s cynical yet insightful view of Hollywood as a place where people lose their way. It suggests that fame and fortune are not the only path available in such a renowned city; rather, it serves as a shelter for those who have been marginalized or forgotten. This duality of Hollywood highlights the need for empathy and awareness of the societal issues that persist beneath its glamorous surface."
Bosch takes her under his wing, and she flourishes into one of the best all-time great fictional detectives. https://www.bookey.app/book/dark-sacred-night/quote
Nearby are Grauman's Chinese Theater and The Hollywood Walk of Fame
Link to
The Hollywood Museum 1660 N. Highland Ave (at Hollywood Blvd)
Hollywood, CA 90028.
Link to
The Hollywood Museum is located within the historic Art Deco Max Factor Building.
Max Factor created makeup for film actors before it became an international cosmetic company.
About the novel.
Harry Bosch, who just can't stay retired, unwillingly teams up with a Hollywood detective who has reasons of her own for wanting in on his latest cold case.
It may be nine years since 15-year-old runaway Daisy Clayton was grabbed from the streets of Los Angeles and killed, but the daily presence of her mother, Elizabeth, in Harry's life--she's staying at his place while he helps her stay clean--makes it a foregone conclusion that he'll reopen the case. On the night Bosch drops into Hollywood Division to sneak a look at some of the old files, he's caught by Detective Renée Ballard, who was bounced from LAPD Robbery/Homicide to "the late show," Hollywood's third shift, after her complaint about aggressive harassment by a superior went nowhere. Bosch needs to find out who was responsible for what happened to Daisy; Ballard needs to work a case with teeth, even if she's partnering with a reserve investigator in the San Fernando Police Department (Two Kinds of Truth, 2017, etc.) who'd rather work alone. Before they get what they need, they'll have to wade through a double caseload as grueling and sometimes as maddeningly routine as you can imagine, from an apparent murder that turns out to be a slip-and-fall to an ancient gang killing whose repercussions flare to sudden life to the theft of some valuable Andy Warhol prints to a missing man who's not just missing--not to mention Elizabeth's sudden disappearance and Ballard's continuing lack of support, and sometimes even backup, from her department. Not even the canniest readers are likely to see which of these byways will end up leading to the long-overdue solution to the riddle of Daisy Clayton's death.
"DARK SACRED NIGHT." Kirkus Reviews LXXXVI.17 (2018)ProQuest. Web. 1 Dec. 2025.
Harry Bosch Series|Michael Connelly
Dark Sacred Night
October 2018, Paperback, page 110
ISBN-13 : 978-1538731765
“Book Overview." Thriftbooks.com. Accessed 30 Nov 2025.
Thriftbooks Book Overview of Dark Sacred Night
Book Overview
Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD Detective Rene Ballard to face the unsolved murder of a runaway, and the fight to bring a killer to justice.
Detective Rene Ballard is working the night beat -- known in LAPD slang as "the late show" -- and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin.
Ballard can't let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has never been the kind of cop who leaves the job behind at the end of her shift -- and she wants in.
The murder, unsolved, was of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally killed, her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now Ballard joins forces with Bosch to find out what happened to Daisy, and to finally bring her killer to justice. Along the way, the two detectives forge a fragile trust, but this new partnership is put to the test when the case takes an unexpected and dangerous turn.
Dark Sacred Night for the first time brings together these two powerhouse detectives in a riveting story that unfolds with furious momentum. And it shows once more why "there's no doubt Connelly is a master of crime fiction" (Associated Press).
For more information, visit www.MichaelConnelly.com.
The Renée Ballard Series
The Late Show (2017)
Dark Sacred Night (2018) (also featuring Harry Bosch)
The Night Fire (2019) (also featuring Harry Bosch)
The Dark Hours (2021) (also featuring Harry Bosch)
Desert Star (2022) (also featuring Harry Bosch)
The Waiting (2024) (also featuring Harry Bosch)
Also appearing in Ironwood (coming out in May 2026), and a
brief part in Resurrection Walk (2023)
The Catalina Series With Detective Stilwell
Nightshade (2025)
Ironwood (coming out in May 2026) (also featuring Renée
Ballard)
The Jack McEvoy Series
The Poet (1996)
A Darkness More Than Night (2001) (small part)
The Brass Verdict (2008) (small part)
The Scarecrow (2009)
Fair Warning (2020)
Also appearing in The Proving Ground (2025)
Rachel Walling Appearances
The Poet (1996)
The Narrows (2004) (sequel to The Poet)
Echo Park (2006)
The Overlook (2007)
The Scarecrow (2009)
The Reversal (2010) (small part)
The Black Box (2012) (small part)
The Burning Room (2014) (small part)
Fair Warning (2020)
Terry McCaleb Appearances
Blood Work (1998)
A Darkness More Than Night (2001)
The Narrows (2004)
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