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A Darkness More Than Night

First British Edition Orion (2004)

The Narrows
The Poet is back! But this time he has a new adversary - PI Harry Bosch.
Former FBI agent Rachel Walling is in South Dakota when she gets the call she’s been dreading for four years. The Poet is back. And he has not forgotten Rachel. He has a special present for her.
Harry Bosch is adjusting to life in Las Vegas as a private investigator and a new father. He gets a call, too - from the widow of a friend who has recently died. Previously in his FBI career, the friend worked on the famous case tracking the killer known as The Poet. That fact makes some of the elements of his death doubly suspicious.
This novel places Michael Connelly’s much-loved hero, Harry Bosch, square in the path of the most ruthless and inventive murderer he has ever encountered. It is a spectacularly dramatic and shocking novel that will shoot Connelly to the top of the bestseller list once more and cement his reputation as a modern master of crime fiction.

First British Edition Orion (2003)

Lost Light
Bosch is back! - in a superb new thriller from this international bestselling author.
Reviewers and readers agree that Michael Connelly is writing at the top of his game, giving us crime fiction on the dark side of Los Angeles and reinventing the form with every book he writes. At the end of City of Bones, fed up with the hypocrisy of the LAPD, Harry Bosch quit the department. Now he’s forced to find a new way of life, but that of a retiree doesn’t suit him. He has always devoted himself to justice, and he is still drawn towards protecting - or avenging -those whom the law has failed.
When he left the LAPD Bosch took a file with him - the case of a film production assistant murdered four years earlier during a $2 million robbery on a movie set. The LAPD - now operating under post 9/11 rules - think the stolen money was used to finance a terrorist training camp. Thoughts of the original murder victim are lost in the federal zeal, and when it seems the killer will be set free to aid the feds’ terrorist hunt, Bosch quickly finds himself in conflict with both his old colleagues and the FBI. He cannot rest until he finds the killer - with or without a badge.
`Lost Light is every bit as good as Connelly’s eight other Harry Bosch novels, which is to say very good indeed ... Readers enter the complex mind of one of the most interesting detectives in American crime fiction’ The Times
`The best crime fiction uses the extreme nature of death to examine the fragile realities of life, and Connelly is writing the best detective fiction out there’ Spectator `A first-to-last-page gripper with a shoot-out so unexpected that it had me ducking for cover, and an anxiety about police power that is proper, timely and authentic’ Literary Review
`Harry Bosch is a great creation, complex, emotionally vulnerable but honest to the core’ Irish Independent
`A brave and complex book’ Scotland On Sunday

Chasing the Dime
Henry Price has a whole new life - new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. But the first time he checks his messages, he discovers that someone had the number before him. The messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Price is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, and it's unlike any world he's ever known. It is a nighttime world of escort services, websites, sex, and secret identities. Price tumbles through a hole, abandoning his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met. Price's skills as a computer entrepreneur allow him to trace Lilly's last days with some precision. But every step into Lilly's past takes Price deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy - and a decision that could cost him everything he owns and holds dear.
Chasing the Dime has the irresistible velocity of film classics like The Maltese Falcon and Chinatown, but with the extraordinary writing and style that have made Michael Connelly 'a crime-writing genius' (Independent on Sunday)

City of Bones

`Slick plotting, far-from-gratuitous thrills, a breakneck pace and superb characterisation’ Guardian
`A stunningly good novel: powerful, intriguing and impossible to lay down - perhaps, indeed, the best of the series’ London Evening Standard
`Packed with Connelly’s memorable characters, the story twists and turns across the freeways and trailer parks, as ever revealing the decay that lurks behind the glamour of Southern California. Emotionally wrenching, yet never lacking the compassion that Bosch has come to symbolise, City of Bones will delight Connelly’s millions of fans, and should - if there is any justice in the world (which Bosch doubts) – win him a great many more’ Daily Mail
`Every now and again, a writer comes along who reinvents the stereotype with striking originality. Such is Michael Connelly. From his first appearance . . . Harry Bosch has been one of a kind’ Daily Express

Paperback - Orion (2001)

First British Edition Orion (2001)

A Darkness More Than Night
Former FBI agent, Terry McCaleb, hero of the bestseller Blood Work, comes out of retirement to help the Los Angeles Police Department investigate a most baffling and bizarre killing. – similar to the murders he once profiled for the FBI. Reluctantly, McCaleb is drawn from his peaceful life on Catalina Island with a new wife and daughter back into the adrenaline-fuelled tension of seeing inside a horrifyingly deranged criminal mind.
More horrifying still, the suspect who fits the profile that McCaleb develops is someone he has known and worked with in the past: a homicide detective fro the LAPD who has perhaps stepped across the line and embraced the darkness he formerly combated – Harry ‘Hieronymus’ Bosch.