Book review: A Darkness more than Night by Michael Connelly

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Michael Connelly is 54 years old and is a well-known writer from Los Angeles. He has spent his life writing detective stories in which he mostly uses Harry Bosch as the main character. Connelly has won lots of awards during is career. Terry McCaleb is happy living with his family, when FBI detective Jaye Winston comes to him and asks him for help on an unsolved case. It is a two-week-old investigation, and Winston thinks that the murderer will kill again if they don't stop him.

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[...] The new suspect is Rudy Tafero, Storey's private investigator. His mobile was to stop Bosch to ensure Storey would win the trial. Tafero acknowledges that McCaleb has found the truth, and he makes a big mistake: he tries to kill McCaleb. But he is saved by Bosch (who had followed him), and can testify about the killing attempt. Tafero is arrested, and makes an exchange with LAPD : he testifies that Storey did what he was accused to : he killed two young actresses, and tried to imply Bosch in a murder case. [...]

[...] He didn't find any evidence, but he is still convinced that Gunn was the killer. But at the same time, Harry Bosch is lead investigator on the very mediatic David Storey's trial. Storey is suspect number one on two murder cases, but his lawyer always finds a weak point on prosecution's testimonies or evidences, so the defendant is going to win the trial. There is an important stake for Bosch, because he doesn't want a suspected serial killer to go away from the justice. [...]

[...] She has followed all the leads she could, but she has found no clues. So she wants McCaleb to help her making a profile or finding a suspect for that case. He accepts the job, because he really wants to lead a last case. McCaleb examins carefully the murder book and the pictures of the crime's scene. The victim was Edward Gunn, who had killed a prostitute six years before he was murdered, but was never arrested. McCaleb has a feeling that FBI missed something on the victim's apartment, and he is right. [...]

[...] A Darkness more than Night" - "L'oiseau des ténèbres", Michael Connelly (2001) The author Michael Connelly is a well-known writer from Los Angeles. He is 54 today. He has spent his life writing detective stories. He uses Harry Bosch as the main character of most of his books. Connelly is the winner of lots of awards. I. Characters presentation Terry McCaleb : He is an ex-profiler for the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). He had to stop working several years before the story begins because of a transplant. [...]