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LAPD Detective Harry Bosch crosses paths with FBI profiler Terry McCaleb in the most dangerous investigation of their lives.

Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy.

Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back. It's a murder, the unreadable kind of murder he specialized in solving back in his FBI days. The investigation has stalled, and the sheriff's office is asking McCaleb to take a quick look at the murder book to see if he turns up something they've missed.

McCaleb's first reading of the crime scene leads him to look for a methodical killer with a taste for rituals and revenge. As his quick look accelerates into a full-sprint investigation, the two crimes - his murdered loner and Bosch's movie director - begin to overlap strangely. With one unsettling revelation after another, they merge, becoming one impossible, terrifying case, involving almost inconceivable calculation. McCaleb believes he has unmasked the most frightening killer ever to cross his sights. But his investigation tangles with Bosch's lines, and the two men find themselves at odds in the most dangerous investigation of their lives.

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LAPD Detective Harry Bosch and FBI profiler Terry McCaleb investigate the murders of a Hollywood actress and a loner, uncovering a terrifying case involving inconceivable calculation and dangerous investigation.
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“Bosch knew all of the demons,” he said without turning from the painting. “The darkness…” A long moment went by. “A darkness more than night.”
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Michael Connelly is the author of thirty-eight previous novels, including New York Times bestsellers Resurrection Walk, Desert Star, and The Dark Hours. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty-five million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of three television series: Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, and The Lincoln Lawyer. He spends his time in California and Florida.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vision (March 1, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 488 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0446667900
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0446667906
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 1.25 x 6.75 inches

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Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of more than thirty novels and one work of nonfiction. With over eighty-five million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into forty-five foreign languages, he is one of the most successful writers working today. A former newspaper reporter who worked the crime beat at the Los Angeles Times and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Connelly has won numerous awards for his journalism and his fiction. His very first novel, The Black Echo, won the prestigious Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1992. In 2002, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the movie adaptation of Connelly's 1998 novel, Blood Work. In March 2011, the movie adaptation of his #1 bestselling novel, The Lincoln Lawyer, hit theaters worldwide starring Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller. His most recent New York Times bestsellers include Desert Star (2022), The Dark Hours (2021), The Law Of Innocence (2020), Fair Warning (2020), and The Night Fire (2019). Michael is the executive producer of Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, Amazon Studios original drama series based on his bestselling character Harry Bosch, starring Titus Welliver and streaming on Amazon Prime/Amazon Freevee. He is the executive producer of The Lincoln Lawyer, streaming on Netflix, starring Manuel Garcia-Rulfo. He is also the executive producer of the documentary films, "Sound Of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story' and 'Tales Of the American.' He spends his time in California and Florida.

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Chuck Krieble

Bosch Series

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2024

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If you like the Bosch series on Amazon, you will like this book. I’ve read a dozen books by this author, all based on the Bosch story line, and my goal is to read the entire series. Evan after a dozen books, I continue to be surprised when the dirty cop or serial killer is exposed. Connelly is a great writer who does his homework. A great read…10 bucks is cheap entertainment these days.

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Rocco Dormarunno

The Darkness of the Heart

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2013

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Michael Connelley's "A Darkness More than Night" has many juxtapositions that I couldn't help enjoying. There is a murder mystery and a courtroom drama going on simultaneously which balances the pacing of the novel (although I felt some of the courtroom antics were unnecessary). There is Harry Bosch's stubborn loneliness compared to Terry McCaleb being spread too thin among his family, his private chartering business and his profiler "consulting". Last there is the obvious juxtaposition of the hearts of our protagonists--one literal and one metaphoric. Terry McCaleb's heart is in the right place, it just isn't his original heart: he'd had a transplant and has to take dozens of prescribed pills every day just to keep it working. Harry Bosch has his own heart, but it is so filled with darkness, so removed from him, it might as well not be there.

The book worked for me on many levels. I especially enjoyed the analysis into the works of the artist, Hieronymous Bosch; it lent a very spooky dimension to the crime McCaleb has been drawn into, since the killer used Bosch's imagery (and words) as a literal background for the murder. Connelley's descriptions of these paintings are possibly the best writing in the book. They lend a thickly textured atmosphere to the book that is both very eerie and fascination on its own.

My only complaint has to do with some of the courtroom elements. While every good trial novel has to have its red herrings and legal bottlenecks, I felt they were too numerous and too lengthy here. One examination of a witness took forever just to establish that a security system was working. (Nothing given away here, don't fret.) A witness who, at the last minute, balks and goes missing, just to be easily caught later, also added little to the book.

But these are minor complaints. Overall, there is so much to recommend this book that I almost feel guilty pointing out what distracted me. Connelley fans and mystery enthusiasts will embrace this book because it contains everything we expect from this generation's most gifted mystery/crime novelist.

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Gary R

Gripping thriller.

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2024

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Connelly has done it again with this crime thriller. He has the ability to make the blurry line of when wrong may be right a little clearer. Worth the read for sure!

Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2023

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This story was intriguing & kept me very interested as the two stories seemed unrelated and linked as the story unfolded. Great read for those who love Bosch!!

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A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connellly: A review

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2015

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Harry Bosch has been with LAPD for twenty-eight years, more than half of those years as a homicide detective. He's now a detective third-grade, which means that he is team leader on investigations. In that capacity, he led his two partners in the investigation of the suspicious death of a woman several months ago. The woman's body was discovered by her roommate. She was naked, lying on her bed, posed in a way that would lead one to suppose that she died accidentally during a self-manipulated erotic asphyxiation. Harry has seen a few such deaths and he almost immediately suspects that this one isn't what it appears to be.

In the course of the investigation, it is learned that the woman, who was an aspiring actress, was out with a famous movie director on the night she died. Suspicion falls upon the man. A search warrant is executed and the team goes to search his house, where nothing related to the crime is found. As they are leaving, Harry is standing at the doorway, giving the man a written notification concerning the search and telling him that they are taking nothing away. The man smirkingly admits to Bosch that he killed the woman and tells him he'll never be able to prove it.

And that is all background to the main action in A Darkness More Than Night.

At the time we enter the story, the trial of the killer is beginning and Bosch is part of the prosecutorial team and the chief witness. But it takes the narrative a while to get to that trial.

Instead, it starts by introducing another of Michael Connelly's characters, a former FBI profiler named Terry McCaleb. McCaleb has a new life - a new heart, a new wife, a new daughter who is four months old. He also has a new occupation. He and his partner take out charter fishing groups on his boat. But he misses his old work and when a local policewoman contacts him to take a look at a particularly nasty murder case that she's working, he jumps at the chance to work with her. This does not go down well with McCaleb's wife, Graciela.

Apparently, McCaleb has appeared as the main character in other Connelly books, but I haven't read them, and I was a little disconcerted at having this story told mostly from his viewpoint when I was expecting another Harry Bosch case. Even so, after I made the adjustment in my expectations, I found the tale absorbing, although I never really warmed up much to McCaleb.

Through a set of all-too-convenient (and obviously contrived) circumstances, McCaleb identifies Harry Bosch as the main suspect in the new murder. At the same time, Harry is testifying in the old case and appearing on court television in the high-profile case. Connelly does a workmanlike job of bringing the two plot lines together and eventually connecting them.

Actually, my favorite parts of the book were the courtroom scenes. Connelly has a real flair for writing such scenes, a flair that he exercises fully in his Lincoln Lawyer series. In this book, Bosch's portion of the story takes place, for the most part, in the courtroom, and that is a bonus.

I enjoyed the book throughout, but I found the wrap-up at the end rather ambiguous and confusing. McCaleb goes to Bosch's house and tells him over a beer that Bosch is not his friend anymore. His justification for such a statement - after Bosch had saved his life - was just convoluted and incoherent, not to mention ungrateful. I'm hoping that McCaleb will not be a permanent feature in the Bosch series.

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Ettz

best one yet

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024

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Most mystery. Most character development. Most compelling.
Insight into Bosch and background as well as a really good story. Page turner.

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2023

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This 9th book in the 'Bosch Universe' pairs two popular Michael Connelly characters: Harry Bosch and Terry McCaleb. The book can be read as a standalone.

This story felt off to me. We are introduced to a character from Connelly’s other books named Terry McCaleb. The story goes back and forth between Terry McCaleb's POV (way too much of him) and Harry Bosch’s POV. While Bosch may not be front and center, his personality and history are certainly up for ananlysis and display. The first half of the book is disjointed and starts to come together once Bosch is more prevalent.

Typical Connelly - a good solid read, no great surprises, but well paced and interesting.

One thing for Audiobook listeners, the narrator was not best. I had a heard time picturing the Bosch we have come to know by this point. I actually switched to the Kindle version because of the bad narration.

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joseph delavan

Michael*connelly A DARKNESS MORE THAN LIGHT

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2024

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The best he ever wrote. Kept me involved and guessing to the end.I hope more like it to come. Very philosophically oriented!

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Bob

“Anyone of us is capable of anything . . . .”

Reviewed in Canada on August 7, 2022

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Terry McCaleb, ex-FBI, who joined Connelly’s cadre of crime fighters a couple novels back (Blood Work) is a featured player in this story. When enticed out of retirement to look at a case others are struggling to solve, McCaleb’s inquiries find his case overlapping with one Hieronymus Bosch is working on, and that leads to them finding themselves in conflict.
This is a taut, fast-paced thriller where again surprise twists leave the reader wondering how such big holes got suddenly blown in their theories of “whodunit”
Connelly is at the top of his game with this one . . . and you get two of his top characters in one exceedingly well-written package!