A Darkness More than Night: Harry Bosch Series, Book 7

By: Michael Connelly

Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson

Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

©2001 by Hieronymus, Inc., All Rights Reserved (P)2001 Time Warner AudioBooks, a Division of Time Warner Trade Publishing

Critic reviews

"[This] novel is...flawless, cleverly conceived, superbly plotted, and morally complex..." (Publishers Weekly)
"Connelly allows Bosch and McCaleb to regard each other critically in ways that sharpen the reader's perception of them..." (New Yorker)

what I think

Would you consider the audio edition of A Darkness More than Night: Harry Bosch Series, Book 7 to be better than the print version?

I enjoyed the book by listening as that is the only way i read it .

What does Richard M. Davidson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Proper use of all words and names

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

thriller

Well crafted Suspense!

I do enjoy this series. Thanks for new characters to love! This book particularly intriguing as Bosch is seen through new eyes. The climax of the book is riveting! Thanks for the sneak peek into the next installment.

quite a mix of the story!

this book was a little confusing at times. never read a michael connelly like it . it was almost a 5.

Narrator ages Harry Bosch

Great story, but didnt care for the narrator. Should have read the book instead of listening vis Audible. Would have enjoyed more.

Narrator stinks

I'm a big Bosch fan. Love the books and the stories are always excellent. The narration is usually very good. However, this one wasn't. The narration was at times sing-song and the rest of the time it was clipped in delivery. It drove me nuts. Almost like William Shatner in Star Trek.

Don’t believe the bad reviews!!

I almost didn’t buy this book based on the bad reviews about the narrator and story, but I’m glad I did buy and listen to it. The story is more about Terry McCaleb (Blood Work) than Bosch. If you like following up on Connolly’s characters, this is a must read. As to the narrator, I didn’t like the voice used for Bosch but the rest of the narration was excellent.

Excellent as usual. Hard to put down.

I never thought I would like a slow moving, detail, crime solving stories but Harry Bösch did it again. Very capturing, hard to put down.

Horrible narrator

I would have returned this book if I didn’t feel I needed to finish it for the sake of series which I love. I could hardly focus on a voice of Harry Bosch because it was so awful. Hopefully the next book will be much better or I’m out.
The story was very very slow through 70% of the book.

Connelly scores another hit!

Here, Connelly does an excellent job of putting two main characters together that are headstrong, interesting and yet decidedly different in their personal code. The way Connelly weaves the dark history of the artist Bosch into a plausible portrait of the detective Bosch is masterful and results in a page turner that the reader can’t put down.

In this reviewers opinion there is no better mystery writer working today than Michael Connelly.
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Worst narrator of any Harry Bosch audiobook

I don't know what they were thinking when they directed the narrator to use a deep, throaty, tough-guy voice for Harry. It does not match Harry's voice in any book before or after and is very out of place.

The story is good, maybe even very good, but avoid this nevertheless. Hopefully this will be re-recorded one day.