Imagined crossover · Police detectives
What if Renée Ballard met Petra Connor?
Hollywood’s day shift and night shift. Two tough, independent women detectives working the same Hollywood streets and fighting the same department.
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The pair
Renée BallardLAPD detective, later head of Open-UnsolvedBy Michael Connelly · Renée Ballard · first in The Late Show
Petra ConnorHollywood Division homicide detectiveBy Jonathan Kellerman · Alex Delaware · first in Survival of the Fittest
Chemistry8/10
Friction6/10
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Where and when
Hollywood Division, Los Angeles
If their timelines lined up
The story
- How they might meet
- A body found at dawn starts on Ballard’s late show and ends on Petra Connor’s homicide desk, and neither is willing to hand it over.
- Why they would work
- Two tough, independent women detectives working the same Hollywood streets and fighting the same department.
- What each brings
- Ballard knows the city at night and refuses to let a case go when her shift ends. Petra is methodical, artistic and unflinching.
- Where they would clash
- Ballard does not like handing over her cases; Petra does not like people working hers.
Strengths compared
Renée Ballard Petra Connor
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On the page together
The years in which each character's books were published.
Read your way in
Start with each character's first appearance.
- The Late ShowMichael Connelly · 2017 · Renée Ballard's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
- Survival of the FittestJonathan Kellerman · 1997 · Petra Connor's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
