A Darkness More than Night

Book Details

A Darkness More than Night

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Author(s):

Michael Connelly

First Pub:

2001

Genre(s):

Crime; Mystery; Thriller

First Read:

2022

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 2

Prologue

48 chapters

Internal ID:

3064

Series:

<- Blood Work

Terry McCaleb*

#2 of 2

Terry McCaleb*

A series of novels set within the Harry Bosch world featuring FBI agent Terry McCaleb.

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1) Blood Work
2) A Darkness More than Night

Harry Bosch

#7 of 23

Harry Bosch

A series of fictional crime novels written by Michael Connelly.

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1) The Black Echo
2) The Black Ice
3) The Concrete Blonde
4) The Last Coyote
5) Trunk Music
6) Angels Flight
7) A Darkness More than Night
8) City of Bones
9) Lost Light
10) The Narrows
11) The Closers
12) Echo Park
13) The Overlook
14) Nine Dragons
15) The Drop
16) The Black Box
17) The Burning Room
18) The Crossing
19) The Wrong Side of Goodbye
20) Two Kinds of Truth
21) Dark Sacred Night
22) The Night Fire
23) The Dark Hours

Harry Bosch World

#10 of 38

Harry Bosch World

Novels that take place within the same world that Harry Bosch exists. Written by Michael Connelly

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1) The Black Echo
2) The Black Ice
3) The Concrete Blonde
4) The Last Coyote
5) The Poet
6) Trunk Music
7) Blood Work
8) Angels Flight
9) Void Moon
10) A Darkness More than Night
11) City of Bones
12) Lost Light
13) The Narrows
14) The Closers
15) The Lincoln Lawyer
16) Echo Park
17) The Overlook
18) The Brass Verdict
19) The Scarecrow
20) Nine Dragons
21) The Reversal
22) The Fifth Witness
23) The Drop
24) The Black Box
25) The Gods of Guilt
26) The Burning Room
27) The Crossing
28) The Wrong Side of Goodbye
29) The Late Show
30) Two Kinds of Truth
31) Dark Sacred Night
32) The Night Fire
33) Fair Warning
34) The Law of Innocence
35) The Dark Hours
36) Desert Star
37) Resurrection Walk
38) The Waiting

Copyright:

Dedication:

This is for Mary and Jack Lavelle,
who proved there are second acts.

First Sentence:

Bosch looked through the small square of glass and saw that the man was alone in the tank.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

Soon the wind off the water dried them on his face.

Comments:

No comments on file

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Added: 28-Apr-2022

Last Updated: 12-Dec-2023

Publications

06-Feb-2001

Hachette Audio

Audiobook

Date Issued:

06-Feb-2001

Format:

Audiobook

Cover Price:

$24.99

Length:

13 hrs 4 min (443 pages)

"Read":

Once

Reading(s):

1) 30 Nov 2022 - 2 Dec 2022

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

12935

Publisher:

Hachette Audio

ISBN:

Unknown

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Richard M Davidson - Narration

From audible.com:

Hieronymus "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.

Don't miss Detective Harry Bosch on the case in these Michael Connelly crime fiction novels.

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

All Covers for this edition of the series

Blood Work

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A Darkness More than Night

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01-Apr-2014

Grand Central Publishing

Paperback B

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Apr-2014

Format:

Paperback B

Cover Price:

$10.00

Pages*:

439

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

33389

Publisher:

Grand Central Publishing

ISBN:

1-455-55067-1

ISBN-13:

978-1-455-55067-8

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

A DARKNESS MORE
THAN NIGHT

It was a case some cops could live with: the torture killing of a man who spread horrors of his own. Yet one investigator believes the unknown assailant will strike again, and she persuades former criminal profiler Terry McCaleb to leave his quiet life to help her out. In a horrific morass of crime scene details, McCaleb deciphers a message and finds a suspect: a Los Angeles detective named Harry Bosch who has spent too many years looking at too much darkness. But while Bosch may have had a good reason to murder a man in a West Hollywood apartment, he has an even better one for staying alive - and for finding a suspect of his own.

"POWERFUL." -Wall Street Journal

"SURPRISING AND SUSPENSEFUL." -People

"[A] GREAT THRILLER."
-Denver Rocky Mountain News

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First international mass market edition: October 2001
First United States mass market edition: March 2002; Reissued March 2003
First U.S. special-price edition: August 2012
First U.S. oversize mass market edition: April 2014
Ninth printing based on the number line
Canada: $13.00

Includes:
Excerpt from The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly.

Author(s)

Michael Connelly
Birth: 21 Jul 1956 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Awards

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