Michael Connelly - A Darkness More Than Night

Pros: Great characters, beautiful prose, and an exciting story
Cons: None At All

Michael Connelly’s “A Darkness More Than Night” is set in the city Raymond Chandler made famous as a classic locale for dark sinister stories. Connelly brings that dark vision of the City of Angels into the twenty first century and provides the...

Pros: Great characters and details; fascinating plot
Cons: Slow, sometimes dry, tangential pacing

I'd heard a little about Michael Connelly's books but never read them. So when I came across A Darkness More Than Night at the library, I decided to give it a shot. I couldn't really remember much of what I'd heard other than that he was good, so ...

Pros: A superb character piece together with a brilliant, complex plot!
Cons: This simply CANNOT be read by itself. Begin at the beginning with "The Black Echo"!

When the LAPD run into a brick wall solving a bizarre murder, sheriff’s detective, Jay Winston, asks her friend Terry McCaleb, a retired FBI agent recently recovered from a heart transplant, to help them out by polishing up his psychological ...

Pros: Sure kept me interested, made me think of career possibilities!
Cons: None

I love to read; everyone who knows me, knows that well. I finish one book and pick up another. But in all of my years of reading I have never read a book by the author Michael Connelly. I was browsing through Sam's Club and happened upon this book and...

Pros: Great series featuring strong plotting, interesting characters, and plenty of action.
Cons: None

In the latest of a long series involving his signature character Harry Bosch, Mr. Connelly writes of the darkness found in good men everywhere. Police officers who deal with the worst that society has to offer while trying not to lose their own decency....

Pros: Incredibly complicated book with insight and interesting things to learn built in.
Cons: If The Scarlet Letter was too difficult this will be too.

This book is one of the most complex books I have ever read. Though far from the first book in the series of Michael Connelly's books that feature Harry Bosch as a significant character, this one is as much about the painter Hieronymus Bosch who was a ...

Pros: Unique and intricate plotting; engaging protagonists
Cons: Secondary cardboard characters; writing, though fluid, lacks style

Los Angeles and its environs has long been the setting of popular crime novelists, from Raymond Chandler to T. Jefferson Parker (my personal favorite), but among them all, Michael Connelly has captured the lion's share of both accolades and sales in the...