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A Darkness More Than Night (A Harry Bosch Novel Book 7) Kindle Edition
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.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLittle, Brown and Company
- Publication dateJanuary 23, 2001
- File size2125 KB
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Gunn was a small-time criminal who had been questioned repeatedly by LAPD Detective Harry Bosch in the unsolved murder of a prostitute, most recently on the night he was killed. McCaleb knows the tense, cranky Bosch (Michael Connelly's series star--see The Black Echo, The Black Ice, et al.) and decides to start by talking to him. But Bosch has time only for a brief chat. He's a prosecution witness in the high-profile trial of David Storey, a film director accused of killing a young actress during rough sex. By chance, however, McCaleb discovers an abstruse but concrete link between the scene of Gunn's murder and Harry Bosch's name: "This last guy's work is supposedly replete with owls all over the place. I can't pronounce his first name. It's spelled H-I-E-R-O-N-Y-M-U-S. He was Netherlandish, part of the northern renaissance. I guess owls were big up there."
McCaleb looked at the paper in front of him. The name she had just spelled seemed familiar to him.
"You forgot his last name. What's his last name?"
"Oh, sorry. It's Bosch. Like the spark plugs."
Bosch fits McCaleb's profile of the killer, and McCaleb is both thunderstruck and afraid--thunderstruck that a cop he respects might have committed a horrendous murder and afraid that Bosch may just be good enough to get away with it. And when Bosch finds out (via a mysterious leak to tabloid reporter Jack McEvoy, late of Connelly's The Poet) that he's being investigated for murder, he's furious, knowing that Storey's defense attorney may use the information to help get his extravagantly guilty client off scot-free.It's the kind of plot that used to make great Westerns: two old gunslingers circling each other warily, each of them wondering if the other's gone bad. But there's more than one black hat in them thar hills, and Connelly masterfully joins the plot lines in a climax and denouement that will leave readers gasping but satisfied. --Barrie Trinkle
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Adult/High School-Harry Bosch, the worn, pragmatic Los Angeles police detective, protagonist of a number of Connelly's earlier books, is joined by Terry McCaleb, former FBI crime-scene profiler, introduced in Blood Work (Little, Brown, 1998). Harry is immersed in testifying at the murder trial of a Hollywood film director, Jack Storey. When McCaleb, retired and living a quiet life with a new wife and two young children, is asked by a former colleague to look at the investigation materials of a recent gruesome homicide, he realizes just how much he misses his vocation. Terry alone has noticed some clues from the crime-scene video that point toward the influence of Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch. Despite pleas from his wife, Terry is drawn into the investigation and finds, to his dismay, that pointers lead straight to acquaintance Harry Bosch, whose real name is Hieronymus. Certain details in Harry's life fit in well with the profile Terry is developing of a ritualistic killer. The clues stemming from Bosch's paintings may lead readers straight to the Internet to view some of Bosch's well-known works to see the clues for themselves. The plot is intricate, and the twists and turns keep coming, but it is so well done, and the characters are so vivid, that confusion isn't a problem. Despite its length, this involving book is a fast read with "can't put it down" appeal.
Carol DeAngelo, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA
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"This great thriller will keep you busy...Connelly is the best of a very large group...of thriller writers following in the footsteps of Raymond Chandler."
-- "Denver Rocky Mountain News""As with all the Bosch thrillers, plot twists abound, but in this case the story itself carries the novel...Connelly is always popular, and this is Connelly at his best."
-- "Library Journal""You can't lose with this chilling tour de force."
-- "Kirkus Reviews""Connelly...is a devious, resourceful plotter and a world-class storyteller. [A Darkness More Than Night] generates the kind of irresistible momentum that very few novelists ever manage to achieve. At the same time, it offers empathetic portraits of two memorably complex protagonists with more than their share of ghosts, griefs, and personal demons to contend with. A Darkness More Than Night is an intelligent, compassionate, unfailingly entertaining thriller."
-- "Barnes & Noble editorial review""It's the kind of plot that used to make great Westerns: two old gunslingers circling each other warily, each of them wondering if the other's gone bad. But there's more than one black hat in them thar hills, and Connelly masterfully joins the plot lines in a climax and denouement that will leave readers gasping but satisfied."
-- "Amazon.com editorial review"From the Publisher
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- ASIN : B000S1LBMW
- Publisher : Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (January 23, 2001)
- Publication date : January 23, 2001
- Language : English
- File size : 2125 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 443 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #17,064 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #111 in Private Investigator Mysteries (Kindle Store)
- #487 in Serial Killer Thrillers
- #539 in Police Procedurals (Books)
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About the author
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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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.
Insight into Bosch and background as well as a really good story. Page turner.
He becomes both the hardened cop solving a case, as well as the accused in a case. There are some lesser characters in the book I didn’t feel were developed well. Mr. Connelly does keep the book moving at a steady pace and inserts some very nice twists. Some of the better twists have Harry and another “friend” taking a long searching inventory of themselves toward the end; which makes for an interesting, thought provoking read. The last couple pages left me thinking about Harry’s one-time friend’s fate.
This may not have been my favorite Bosch read. But, its well thought out, well written and really should not be missed, Its far from disappointing.
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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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!
In general, the story was ok. But it had a lot of other things working for it.
Reviewed in India on February 9, 2021
In general, the story was ok. But it had a lot of other things working for it.