Dark Sacred Night

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Dark Sacred Night
Author Michael Connelly
LanguageEnglish/Spanish
Series Harry Bosch #21
Genre Crime novel
Publisher Little, Brown and Company
Publication date
2018
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint, e-book
Pages400 pp.
ISBN 978-0316484800
Preceded by Two Kinds of Truth  
Followed by The Night Fire  

Dark Sacred Night is the 32nd novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the twenty-first novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. It is the second to feature Renee Ballard. The book was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2018.

Reception

Maureen Corrigan of The Washington Post called it "ingenious, frantically suspenseful, and very, very bleak." [1] Kirkus Reviews stated: "Fans who don't think the supporting cases run away with the story will marvel at Connelly's remarkable ability to keep them all not only suitably mystifying, but deeply humane, as if he were the Ross Macdonald of the police procedural." [2] Charles Finch of USA Today rated the novel 3 stars out of 4 and wrote that while the story is "fairly meandering and uncertain", Connelly eventually "hits his stride" and his "denouement here is thrilling." [3]

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References

  1. Corrigan, Maureen (31 October 2018). "Two loner detectives find each other in Michael Connelly's darkly brilliant new novel". The Washington Post . Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  2. "DARK SACRED NIGHT". Kirkus Reviews . 1 September 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  3. Finch, Charles (29 October 2018). "Hooray! Renee Ballard is back - with Harry Bosch - in Michael Connelly's new thriller". USA Today . Retrieved 24 September 2024.