Darker than the night
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Darker than the night
Under the candlestick is usually the darkest. And Bosch's reputation is dazzling...
Former FBI agent Terrence McCaleb was given a second chance at life, and after a heart transplant, he chose to hang up his stressful profession. However, the successful criminal profiler is pulled out of his family idyll on an island in Santa Monica Bay by a visit from a Los Angeles M.E. investigator, who can't solve the brutal murder of room painter Edward Gunn. The dead man was no innocent. Moreover, the drastic manner in which he was disposed of raises legitimate concerns among the police that he will probably not be the last victim of a sadistic killer. The deceased was once investigated by Terry's friend Harry Bosch - who is currently testifying in the high-profile trial of a Hollywood director accused of a violent crime - so the respected detective is asked to help. Which may have been a mistake, since some of the clues we found lead to him...
The seventh installment of the popular series of crime novels that spawned the successful Bosch series starring Titus Welliver. This time, however, the solemn investigator has become more involved in the murder investigation than he would have liked.
They wrote about the book:
Connelly at his best. Highly recommended!
- Library Journal
The author allows Bosch and McCaleb to be critical of each other in a way that deepens the reader's understanding of both characters.
- The New Yorker
A suspenseful thriller with all the necessary attributes of the genre. Michael Connelly can certainly write.
- databazeknih.cz
Michael Connelly
(* 1956) American writer worked for many years as a journalist (among others. Los Angeles Times) and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his articles on police practices and crime. In the early 1990s, he published the novel Black Echo (1992), in which he created Harry Bosch, a peculiar detective with a deep disrespect for authority and a self-defeating sense of justice. He won the Edgar Award for this first novel, in which he elaborated his journalistic experience and continued the tradition of the American hard school. He is the author of 33 books, which have been translated into 39 languages and some of them have been successfully made into films - Clint Eastwood directed the novel Blood Trail (2002), and Matthew McConaughey played the lead role in the 2011 film adaptation of The Advocate. The Bosch series starring Tito Welliver as a detective named after the Dutch painter is now in its sixth season.
