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A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch)
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- 2002-03-01
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Bosch lives up to the darkness of his namesake
Connelly is one of the best writers working today when it comes to the police procedural variety of murder mystery. His best known series features Det. Harry Bosch, but he has a couple of newer series going, too, plus several independent novels. But since all of them are set in Los Angeles, it's no surprise that some of his characters have begun to appear in each other's novels. Terry McCaleb is a now-retired FBI profiler, one of the best, whom we first met in _Blood Work_ (which also was made into a pretty good film starring Clint Eastwood), and who is now trying to run a charter boat service out of Catalina while making it through his fourth year since the heart transplant that was the pivot-point in the earlier book. He's brought in to consult on a case by a homicide detective with the Sheriff's office who's afraid she might have a serial killer on her hands. On his new wife's insistence, and because of his new baby daughter, Terry has avoided such matters -- but it's what he does, what he is, and he deeply misses being involved. Meanwhile, Harry Bosch is just as deeply involved in the murder trial of a Hollywood producer accused of strangling a young actress during sex. Naturally, the two narratives drift slowly together, a process the author handles very adroitly. The details of Terry's homicide case and of the producer's trial will suck you in and keep you up late reading. Connelly is very skilled both at complex but understandable plotting and at painting four-dimensional characters with lots of history. Bosch, especially, knows the darkness almost too well. And the driven McCaleb isn't always an admirable character. But they're both "real" people. This is one of Connelly's best.
