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In A Darkness More than Night, Michael Connelly brings together in a clash of values Terry McCaleb, the semi-retired profiler of Blood Work and Harry Bosch, the burned-out LAPD veteran who most recently appeared in Angels Flight. McCaleb is called in unofficially when someone hog-ties acquitted rapist and murderer Gunn and leaves him to strangle himself, and he soon finds everything from the way Gunn died to the plastic owl left watching the corpse pointing him solidly in one direction. Meanwhile Bosch is orchestrating a high-profile case against a Hollywood producer with a taste for strangling his mistresses and a security adviser whose dislike of Bosch goes back a very long way... This is an ingenious thriller which is also a powerful parable about justice and just how far it is possible to go in pursuit of it; Connelly is as intelligent about human motivation and the misunderstandings that destroy friendship as he is about forensics, art history and the mechanics of prosecution. By bringing together two series characters, he ensures that we care passionately about the outcome of his puzzle and his argument; we have a lot invested in who is right, and who is innocent. --Roz Kaveney
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When a sheriff's detective shows up on former FBI man Terry McCaleb's Catalina Island doorstep and requests his help in analyzing photographs of a crime scene, McCaleb at first demurs. He's newly married (to Graciela, who herself dragged him from retirement into a case in Blood Work), has a new baby daughter, and is finally strong again after a heart transplant. But once a bloodhound, always a bloodhound. One look at the video of Edward Gunn's trussed and strangled body puts McCaleb back on the investigative trail, hooked by two details: the small statue of an owl that watches over the murder scene and the Latin words "Cave Cave Dus Videt," meaning "Beware, beware, God sees," on the tape binding the victim's mouth.
Gunn was a small-time criminal who had been questioned repeatedly by LAPD Detective Harry Bosch in the unsolved murder of a prostitute, most recently on the night he was killed. McCaleb knows the tense, cranky Bosch (Michael Connelly's series star--see The Black Echo, The Black Ice, et al.) and decides to start by talking to him. But Bosch has time only for a brief chat. He's a prosecution witness in the high-profile trial of David Storey, a film director accused of killing a young actress during rough sex. By chance, however, McCaleb discovers an abstruse but concrete link between the scene of Gunn's murder and Harry Bosch's name:
"This last guy's work is supposedly replete with owls all over the place. I can't pronounce his first name. It's spelled H-I-E-R-O-N-Y-M-U-S. He was Netherlandish, part of the northern renaissance. I guess owls were big up there."Bosch fits McCaleb's profile of the killer, and McCaleb is both thunderstruck and afraid--thunderstruck that a cop he respects might have committed a horrendous murder and afraid that Bosch may just be good enough to get away with it. And when Bosch finds out (via a mysterious leak to tabloid reporter Jack McEvoy, late of Connelly's The Poet) that he's being investigated for murder, he's furious, knowing that Storey's defense attorney may use the information to help get his extravagantly guilty client off scot-free.McCaleb looked at the paper in front of him. The name she had just spelled seemed familiar to him.
"You forgot his last name. What's his last name?"
"Oh, sorry. It's Bosch. Like the spark plugs."
It's the kind of plot that used to make great Westerns: two old gunslingers circling each other warily, each of them wondering if the other's gone bad. But there's more than one black hat in them thar hills, and Connelly masterfully joins the plot lines in a climax and denouement that will leave readers gasping but satisfied. --Barrie Trinkle -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Connelly lässt seine drei Helden in einem Roman auftreten. Geht das gut? Für den Leser wirkt es zunächst etwas verwirrend, dass Harry Bosch zunächst nur eine Nebenperson und später sogar Tatverdächtiger ist. Terry McCaleb ist einem Mörder auf der Spur, dessen modus operandi in immer näher an Harry Bosch führt, der selber gerade als Mitglied der Anklage in einen Mordfall verwickelt ist. Der Weg dorthin ist spannend, wie man es von Connelly gewohnt ist. Langsam entfaltet sich das Puzzle vor den Augen des Lesers. Zwei Dinge sind zu kritisieren: Connelly schafft es nicht wirklich, seinen Held Bosch aus einer anderen Perspektive zu zeigen. Die Außensicht ist hin und wieder vorhanden, wird aber nicht konsequent eingesetzt. Bosch bleibt in diesem Buch eine eher blasse Figur. Dadurch wirkt das Ende dann leider auch etwas konstruiert, da Boschs Motivation im Dunklen bleibt. Lesenwert ist das Buch allemal.
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This is the 5th HB novel I've read. Generally speaking, it is a very solid, suspensful novel. However, in my opinion, MC has written much better books. You realise too early in which dirction the plot is heading. Moreover, it seems that MC, in a darkness more than night, wasn't very creative. He was apparently running out of ideas so he maybe thought, why not bring two characters of previously successful books together? But it doesn't work that simple. In comparison with Bosch (one of my absolute favorite characters regardless what book) McCaleb falls very short. He just can't compete with Bosch, that's for sure!!!
In addition, I was also dissapointed to see so many similarities with an excellent book that had been previously written: the concrete blond. It is also a mixture of police thriller and courtroom story. But the concrete blond is, by far, the better book. Anyway, fans of HB will like it. For everyone else I higly recommend to read the HB novels (starting with the black echo and so forth) right from the beginning.
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In addition, I was also dissapointed to see so many similarities with an excellent book that had been previously written: the concrete blond. It is also a mixture of police thriller and courtroom story. But the concrete blond is, by far, the better book. Anyway, fans of HB will like it. For everyone else I higly recommend to read the HB novels (starting with the black echo and so forth) right from the beginning.
cheers
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Auch diese Geschichte hat mir sehr viel Spaß gemacht beim Lesen. Vor allen Dingen gibt es am Ende jedes Mal wieder überraschende Wendungen. Ich hätte aber einen Tipp für Leser: Man sollte versuchen, die Romane in chronologischer Reihenfolge zu lesen. Es wird immer mal wieder auf Vorläufer Bezug genommen, wenn auch nichts Wesentliches verraten wird.
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