A Darkness More Than Night

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A Darkness More Than Night
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First edition
Author Michael Connelly
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series Harry Bosch, #7
Genre Crime novel
Published2000 (Little, Brown and Company)
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages418
ISBN 0-316-15407-5
OCLC 43903575
813/.54 21
LC Class PS3553.O51165 D37 2001
Preceded by Angels Flight & Blood Work  
Followed by City of Bones  

A Darkness More Than Night is the tenth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly; it is the seventh featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch, and the second featuring FBI profiler Terry McCaleb, with reporter Jack McEvoy ( The Poet ) also making an appearance in a supporting role. [1] [2]

Contents

The novel (along with The Black Echo ) formed the basis for the 2017 third season of Bosch , starring Titus Welliver as Bosch. [3] [4]

Plot summary

Terry McCaleb and Graciela Rivers have married and have an infant daughter named Cielo, and McCaleb's fishing charter business is running full-time on Catalina Island. Nevertheless, sheriff's deputy Jaye Winston brings McCaleb a file involving the ritualistic murder of a suspect named Edward Gunn, and asks McCaleb to take a look at it, as the police have gotten nowhere. As McCaleb analyzes the clues, they seem to point straight toward Harry Bosch, whom McCaleb knows from a previous investigation before his retirement. Bosch is currently a key witness in a separate high-profile murder case involving movie director David Storey, who is on trial for murdering an actress during rough sex and staging her death to look like autoerotic asphyxiation. Author/reporter Jack McEvoy, who wrote The Poet, is covering the case.

After McCaleb alerts the police to Bosch's probable involvement in the murder, Bosch goes to Catalina himself to challenge McCaleb's work and to ask him to re-examine the evidence. Based on a parking ticket that McCaleb finds, he concludes that Bosch may have been set up by Storey in order to discredit his evidence in the court case, but the key evidence in proving that is a post office surveillance tape that was in the process of being erased, and from which nothing usable can be recovered.

Nevertheless, Bosch and McCaleb pretend that they have recovered something from the tape. This prompts Rudy Tafero, Gunn's actual killer and an ex-cop who handled security for Storey, to target McCaleb. Bosch saves McCaleb and captures Rudy, in the process killing Rudy's younger brother Jesse. In return for not being charged with felony-murder in his brother's death, Rudy turns over evidence implicating Storey in the plan to frame Bosch, and Storey agrees to plead guilty to murder in a plea bargain seen by only McEvoy (tipped off by Bosch) among the reporters. However, McCaleb realizes that Bosch was around to save him only because Bosch knew all the details of Gunn's death and had lied to McCaleb; McCaleb breaks off any renewed relationship with Bosch as a result. Bosch then "baptizes" himself in a plan for a fresh start.

Adaptation

The events of A Darkness More Than Night (along with The Black Echo ) were adapted for the 2017 third season of Bosch , starring Titus Welliver as Bosch. [3] [4] McCaleb's role as the unofficial investigator of Gunn's murder is filled instead by Jerry Edgar, who is piggy-backing on the official investigation being carried out by LAPD Detectives Jimmy Robertson and Rondell Pierce. Less significantly, David Storey's name is changed to Andrew Holland, while prosecutor Janis Langweiser becomes Deputy District Attorney Anita Benitez, whom Bosch is dating. The resolution to the story is changed, as Rudy Tafero flips on Holland after Bosch leaks footage from an illegal spy-camera of his showing Jesse breaking into Gunn's apartment, enabling the police to arrest Jesse. Rudy agrees to wear a wire to get Holland to incriminate himself. Edgar realizes the truth about Bosch having witnessed Gunn's murder after Bosch mentions during his interrogation of Rudy the specific model of car that the Taferos drove to the scene of the murder before Rudy mentioned it, and it is not visible within the spy-camera's viewing area.

Awards

The novel was nominated for the 2002 Barry Award for "Best Novel". [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Zackel, Frederick (March 2001). "Review | A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly". January Magazine . Retrieved 2012-04-05.
  2. ↑ "A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly". Kirkus Reviews . 2000-10-01. Retrieved 2012-04-05.
  3. 1 2 Connelly, Michael (April 3, 2016). "Bosch Season 3 Is A Go!". MichaelConnelly.com. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Bosch: Season 3 (2017)". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved May 4, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine- Barry Awards". Deadly Pleasures. Archived from the original on 2012-04-23. Retrieved 2012-04-05.
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