A Darkness More Than Night
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Terry McCaleb, the retired FBI agent who starred in the bestseller “Blood Work,” is questioned by the LAPD to help them investigate aseries of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ritualized killings McCaleb specialized in solving with the FBI, and he is reluctantly drawn from his peaceful new life back into the horror and excitement of tracking down a terrifying homicidal maniac. More horrifying still, the suspect who seems to fit the profile that McCaleb develops is a name he has known and worked with in the past: LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch.Amazon.com Review
When a sheriff’s detective shows up on ex- FBI man Terry McCaleb’s Catalina Island doorstep and requests his help in analyzing photographs of a crime scene, McCaleb at first demurs. He’s newly married (to Graciela, who herself dragged him from retirement into a case in Blood Work), has a new baby daughter, and is finally strong again after a heart transplant. But once a bloodhound, permanently a bloodhound. One look at the video of Edward Gunn’s trussed and strangled body puts McCaleb back on the investigative trail, hooked by two details: the tiny statue of an owl that watches over the murder scene and the Latin words “Cave Cave Dus Videt,” meaning “Beware, beware, God sees,” on the tape binding the victim’s mouth.
Gunn was a tiny-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 examination of David Storey, a film director accused of killing a young actress during rough sex. By chance, but, 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 huge 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 worried–thunderstruck that a cop he respects might have committed a horrendous murder and worried that Bosch may just be excellent 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 fantastic Westerns: two ancient gunslingers circling each additional warily, each of them wondering if the additional’s gone terrible. 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 place readers gasping but satisfied. –Barrie Trinkle
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This book arrived on time but was nearly unable to be opened because of water hurt.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
One word,skip it.It s not worth it.People are tired of reading the everlasting fight of excellent vs evil.The emotional drainage the heroes(excellent guys) go through to fight evil and bring it to justice.
I regretted buying the book.IT is highly unrealistic(not neccessarily a terrible point for a fiction book) but worse of all it is dull with a capital B.Bosch and Mc Caleb can not cut the mustard anyway you look at it.
Better luck next time Mr. Conelly.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I have not listened to the book yet. It was sent in a timely manner.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I have read several of Connelly novels starting with the Closers and reading most of them back to the Poet. I have held the Poet as being Connelly’s poorest example of prose until I read A Darkness More Than Night. As a college educated individual I establish that it took too far fetched that a FBI profiler would base his entire profile off of two individuals having the same name. As a literature student I establish each scene/chapter of the book to be a repeat of the one before it or one establish in another book. Also Connelly puts so much weight on Bosch’s character and then undermines his position, which destroys the book. He also describes Kiz Rider as having a disease rather than being lesbian, why should she be worried to say that she is gay? Why should a writer use a character’s sexuality as an element of mystery? As a law student I establish every court scene to be more like any ABC/CBS drama than reality. Some have said that this is a excellent read because Connelly “weaves” additional characters from his books into this one, but like a “greatest hits” baby book the actual baby book is permanently stronger than the compilation. The Narrows, Lost Light and The Closers are much stronger books and more worth your time.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
… The premise of this book is ludicrous: a respected and persistent police detective, of many years standing, becomes the prime suspect in a grisly killing? And might have killed a bunch of additional terrible people? Huh? If you’ve read any additional Bosch books (…), you’ll know that Harry ain’t no freakin’ killer. The whole thought is aggravating. The wimpy asides of his detectives make me gnash my teeth, and the dreadful (even embarrassing) predicaments he shoves them into make you marvel how they ever got to the lofty heights he claims for them. The ex- FBI profiler in this book is an idiot. And his wife and kids, over whom so much angst is spilled? Nonentities…
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5