A Darkness More Than Night

McCaleb soll das Profil des Täters eines ungelösten Mordfalls erstellen. Das Opfer war sechs Jahre zuvor von Harry Bosch wegen Mordes verhaftet worden. McCaleb findet einen bislang übersehenen Hinweis. Die Plastikeule als Botschaft des Mörders, Symbol des Bösen in der Renaissance, führt unmittelbar zu Harry Bosch. Nun geht es auch noch um dessen guten Ruf!

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch crosses paths with FBI profiler Terry McCaleb while investigating the murder of a Hollywood actress.
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.

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Auteur

Michael Connelly is the author of thirty-eight previous novels, including *New York Times bestsellers *Resurrection Walk, Desert Star, and The Dark Hours. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty-five million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of three television series: *Bosch, Bosch: **Legacy, and The Lincoln Lawyer. He spends his time in California and Florida.

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Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown, 2001.