#38 in Crime & mystery
The Night Fire
- NYT bestseller · 7 weeks on the list, peaked at #1
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Our view
Bosch and Ballard work well together in “The Night Fire”, which keeps several investigations going at once. It is the twenty-second Bosch novel and the third with Renée Ballard. Some readers call it fast-paced; others say the cases took most of the book to interest them, and feel that Ballard does not always speak and act like a woman of her generation.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
The Night Fire is the 33rd novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the 22nd novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. It is the third to feature Renee Ballard. The book was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2019.
Reading order · Harry Bosch
Full order & progress →- The Black EchoStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - The Black Ice
7.77.7 / 10 - The Concrete Blonde
8.08.0 / 10 - The Last Coyote
8.08.0 / 10 - Trunk Music
7.97.9 / 10 - Angels Flight
7.97.9 / 10 - A Darkness More Than Night
7.77.7 / 10 - City of Bones
7.87.8 / 10 - Lost Light
7.97.9 / 10 - The Narrows
7.87.8 / 10 - The Closers
7.97.9 / 10 - Echo Park
7.97.9 / 10 - The Overlook
7.77.7 / 10 - Nine Dragons
7.77.7 / 10 - The Drop
7.97.9 / 10 - The Black Box
7.87.8 / 10 - The Burning Room
7.87.8 / 10 - The Crossing
8.08.0 / 10 - The Wrong Side of Goodbye
7.97.9 / 10 - Two Kinds of Truth
7.97.9 / 10 - Dark Sacred Night
7.97.9 / 10 - The Night FireThis book
8.08.0 / 10 - The Dark Hours
7.87.8 / 10 - Desert Star
7.97.9 / 10 - The waiting
7.77.7 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.4 across 117 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 44% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 117 | 100% |
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