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Nightshade

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Nightshade

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been “exiled” to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor --- a Jane Doe identifiable at first only by a streak of purple dye in her hair. At the same time, a report of poaching on a protected reserve turns into a case fraught with violence and danger as Stilwell digs into the shady past of an island bigwig. Crossing all lines of protocol and jurisdiction, Stilwell doggedly works both cases.

Nightshade: A Catalina Novel
by Michael Connelly

  • Publication Date: April 7, 2026
  • Genres: Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
  • ISBN-10: 0316588504
  • ISBN-13: 9780316588508