A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch) [Mass Market Paperback]

In A Darkness More than Night, Michael Connelly brings together in a clash of values Terry McCaleb, the semi-retired profiler of Blood Work and Harry Bosch, the burned-out LAPD veteran who most recently appeared in Angels Flight. McCaleb is called in unofficially when someone hog-ties acquitted rapist and murderer Gunn and leaves him to strangle himself, and he soon finds everything from the way Gunn died to the plastic owl left watching the corpse pointing him solidly in one direction. Meanwhile Bosch is orchestrating a high-profile case against a Hollywood producer with a taste for strangling his mistresses and a security adviser whose dislike of Bosch goes back a very long way... This is an ingenious thriller which is also a powerful parable about justice and just how far it is possible to go in pursuit of it; Connelly is as intelligent about human motivation and the misunderstandings that destroy friendship as he is about forensics, art history and the mechanics of prosecution. By bringing together two series characters, he ensures that we care passionately about the outcome of his puzzle and his argument; we have a lot invested in who is right, and who is innocent. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Lots of authentic police procedure, and Michael Beck's pace and varied characterisation, add to the enjoyment' (Christina Hardyment THE INDEPENDENT ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Lots of authentic police procedure, and Michael Beck's pace and varied characterisation, add to the enjoyment' -- Christina Hardyment THE INDEPENDENT --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A masterpiece of thriller writing brings together Terry McCaleb, hero of BLOODWORK, and bestselling Michael Connelly's great series detective, Harry Bosch, with a part for Jack McEvoy from THE POET. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

McCaleb, now married to Graciela and with a baby daughter, is persuaded to take a case from the LA County Sheriff's office. He is asked to profile the killer of an unsolved murder. The victim was a scuzzball who six years earlier had been arrested by Harry Bosch for murder but then released uncharged by the DA's office. In doing what he does best - reviewing the crime scene tapes and investigative records - McCaleb picks up a clue the sheriffs missed, a plastic owl left at the crime scene that the sheriffs thought belonged to the victim. McCaleb discovers that it was left by the killer as a message. He traces this symbol to an icon used as a sign of evil in renaissance paintings, and finds that one of the most frequent users of this iconography was none other than Hieronymus Bosch, which makes Harry a suspect. The book becomes an examination of Harry Bosch through the eyes of McCaleb. Meanwhile Bosch is in the midst of a high stakes trial being covered in the press by Jack McEvoy. Bosch was lead investigator on a murder case that saw the arrest of the son of a wealthy and powerful man. As the trial progresses the defense strategy becomes clear: put Bosch on trial instead of the rich kid, make the focus on Bosch and his methods. McCaleb and Bosch, first at odds, must now work together to clear Harry's name --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the author of six acclaimed Harry Bosch novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde, The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, and Angels Flight as well as The Poet, Blood Work and most recently Void Moon. He lives in Los Angeles. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.