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The 2020s · Los Angeles, 2024

The Waiting

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Ballard's badge is stolen, and Maddie Bosch steps in

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Quick recap

Renée Ballard is out surfing when someone breaks into her car and takes her badge and gun. Without telling her bosses, she tries to get them back and finds signs that an extremist group is planning an attack in Malibu. To stop it, she brings in Harry Bosch, still recovering from cancer, and the FBI. Meanwhile, her cold-case unit gets a DNA hit that could solve 20 years of attacks by the Pillowcase Rapist. And Maddie Bosch, now a patrol officer, joins the team with evidence tied to the 1947 Black Dahlia murder. Ballard also faces her own family's past and her missing mother. Not everything ends the way she wants, and every case takes its toll.

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What changed on screen

  1. ReferenceThe Black Dahlia

    Maddie Bosch, now a cop, joins Ballard's unit with evidence tied to the 1947 Black Dahlia murder, LA's most famous unsolved crime.

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  2. Behind the scenesBallard's past

    The book digs into Ballard's backstory, with a subplot about her missing mother.

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