A Darkness More than Night: Harry Bosch Series, Book 7

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.

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.

This was the only Harry Bosch book that I didn’t have

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!

It's our friend Terry McCaleb not a Harry Bosch book really. Bosch is the secondary character here, though the story revolves around him. I like reading about Terry, though I don't know how I'd feel if I hadn't read BLOOD WORK. Going directly through just the Bosch series and landing here would feel strange, I'd guess. My recommendation is to read that book before this one.

Very good read!

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.

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!!

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!

I stared out not enjoying this book - too contrived and not really what I would expect from a Bosch novel, but about half way through I got drawn in and could not put it down. All the stuff about the scene of the crime was a bit too much and not really believable but the rest was intriguing and the courtroom interplay worked well. Well written as always, and an intriguing read.

Good from start to end and with so many twists and turns a delight.

I'm reading all Harry Bosch books, am hooked!

I bought this because Terry McCaleb and Harry Bosch clash in this. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Well written, the author did the best with both these characters. I loved the change in narrative. It is in third person.In general, the story was ok. But it had a lot of other things working for it.