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)

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.

The best of the series so far.

Where does A Darkness More than Night: Harry Bosch Series, Book 7 rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

High

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

Voice to the characters. Personality. Excellent representation of each.

Any additional comments?

The comments about poor presentation, sound quality, and lack of good storyline almost convinced me to skip this one. So glad I didn't. I enjoyed this one the most of all.

Awesome

I love the Harry Bosch series of books. I have yet to be disappointed with one. I even love the Amazon Prime show. However, whoever hired Mr. Davidson to read this book made an awful decision. He made Harry sound like a combination of several horrible tv cops. The voice he used was just bad. Howver, because I love these books I hung in there and listened to the end. Truly wish Dick Hill had continued to do the series as I feel he is amongst the best. . So bottom line 5 Stars for the book but 3 for the narrator.

Terrible narrator

Great story but this different narrator made Bosch sound 80 years old. Please, no more!

Good story. Terrible narrator

Absolutely terrible narrator. Spoiled an otherwise excellent story. Interesting plot and overall well developed characters.

A Darkness More Than Night

I am really crazy about the Nick Nolte version of Harry’s voice. It’s really annoying.

A unique Bosch story

The story was unique in that it seemed to be told more from the perspective of Terry McCaleb, a former FBI profiler with whom Bosch had worked with on a prior case. It took a little bit to get used to that angle but it ultimately worked and the story was very good. The performance was also unique and as you will read in several reviews, there is some criticism for the voice work of Mr. Davidson. His voice acting is superb but the tone for Bosch was not what I had in my mind's ear. Bosch sounded much older like an old man. Again, it ultimately worked out as well as with any voice change between narrators, you adjust. Dick Hill is the standard for Bosch voice other than Titus himself! Mr. Davidson did a great job it is just an adjustment. In this audible as in the next one City Of Bones, they have started playing some eerie music at points of climax...doesn't work for me.

Love Harry Bosch!

Connelly hasn’t written a bad book yet, that I know of. The Bosch series is always entertaining and keeps the reader guessing.

Give me more of Bosch

The narrator didn’t have enough range and made Bosch sound like a drunk old man. Too much of McCaleb and not enough Bosch.

Narration ruins this one.

Apparently they let anyone read these, totally different inflection for Bosch and not in a good way.