<![CDATA[A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch, #7)]]>

false <![CDATA[A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch, #7)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170899743m/76867.jpg 76867 30 When a sheriff's detective shows up on former 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, always 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 small 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 small-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 trial of David Storey, a film director accused of killing a young actress during rough sex. By chance, however, McCaleb discovers an abstruse but concrete link between the scene of Gunn's murder and Harry Bosch's name: <blockquote>"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 big 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."</blockquote> Bosch fits McCaleb's profile of the killer, and McCaleb is both thunderstruck and afraid--thunderstruck that a cop he respects might have committed a horrendous murder and afraid that Bosch may just be good 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 great Westerns: two old gunslingers circling each other warily, each of them wondering if the other's gone bad. 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 leave readers gasping but satisfied. --Barrie Trinkle 3094994 2000 A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch, #7) total:1602|5:25|4:47|3:26|2:5|1:1| 1602 6263 2055 87 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Jan 27 19:34:29 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 19:35:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 13:32:25 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 13:32:25 -0700 2009
First I read "Last Coyote," about Bosch. Then I read "Blood Work," about Terry McCaleb. Third, I read this, "A Darkness More Than Night,"...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 12:29:58 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 12:30:06 -0700 2009
A murderer has been killed himself. The investigator thinks that the killer will attack again but this case is at a stand-still. She persuades former criminal profiler,Terry McCaleb to come back after his recovery from a heart transplant. McCale...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 09:18:11 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 09:18:13 -0800 2009
I hated The Poet, liked Angels Flight. Vowed to only read the Bosch novels and skip the rest.

So here I am, with what is nominally Bosch #7. However, it's not a Bosch novel. It's about Terry McCaleb (introduced in a novel I didn't read (see above)), who happens to be...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Sep 20 13:44:25 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 13:49:26 -0700 2007 Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch, the worn, pragmatic Los Angeles police detective, protagonist of a number of Connelly's earlier books, is joined by Terry McCaleb, former FBI crime-scene profiler, introduced in Blood Work (Little, Brown, 1998). Harry is immerse...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 25 05:23:26 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 05:24:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 09:40:22 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 20:48:52 -0800 2008 But wait..... so much more!!!!!
I just counted... I've now read 8 Michael Connelly books.
This was my favorite. I like to read a series because I get to know characters. In this novel. Connelly combines heroes so we have Bosch andTerry McCaleb in th...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 19:33:05 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 19:37:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 07:53:01 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 07:53:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 20:52:31 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 11:10:38 -0700 2009 Once
I can't summarize the plot without spoilers so I will only say that it follows two threads: tracking Harry Bosch as he testifies and helps t...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Apr 20 13:56:49 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 13:57:59 -0700 2009
The narrator did a nice job without going over the top in voices. The plot moved alon...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue May 19 05:32:15 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 05:34:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 13:08:45 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 14:31:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 16:38:08 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 16:41:34 -0700 2009
I felt I was follow...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Jun 08 12:04:19 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 12:07:51 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jul 30 06:59:12 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 06:59:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 12:27:41 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 13:24:59 -0800 2009 A change is a as good as a rest]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 13:07:46 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 13:11:09 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 08:06:21 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 08:29:08 -0800 2008
I will look for some more of Connelly's works. ]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jul 31 18:40:47 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 18:43:40 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=76867