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Dark Sacred Night

A Harry Bosch Novel

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Dark Sacred Night

By: Michael Connelly
Narrated by: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin
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At the end of a long, dark night Detectives Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch cross paths for the very first time.

Detective Renée Ballard is working the graveyard shift again and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find that an older man has snuck in and is rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is none other than legendary LAPD detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin.

Ballard kicks him out, but eventually Bosch persuades her to help, and she relents. Bosch is investigating the death of 15-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway who was brutally murdered. He crossed paths with her devastated mother while working a previous case, and Daisy's story has seized hold of him.

©2018 Michael Connelly (P)2018 Orion Publishing Group Crime Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Police Procedural Thriller Thriller & Suspense Law Cold Case Suspense Dark Sacred
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Praise for Connelly: "One of the world's greatest crime writers." (Daily Mail)
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I wasn't so impressed by this book, Bosch seems to have lost his sparkle. I like Ballard and I think that maybe in future books they will be better together.

I didn't like the narration, there didn't see any point in changing from male to female narrators, I found this distracting, also distracting and uneccessary was the loud music at the beginning of the book!

Not one of his best

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A great story, as expected. Titus Welliver brilliant, as expected.

The voice of Christine Lakin was irritating and spoiled my enjoyment. I had to try listening to it a few times before I got used to the voice.

Please, please, please let Titus Welliver read the whole thing.

A great story - Spoiled by Christine Lakin

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I'm a fan of Bosch - I've read all of the books and am currently enjoying the very well made series on Amazon Prime. I was about 10 books into the series before seeing the TV show, and initially, Titus Welliver wasn't how I'd pictured Bosch. I've been swayed by the show and I now see Titus and Bosch as inseparable. This is one of my favourite books in the series and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of listening to Titus Welliver tell it. I would be very happy to listen to more of the series if they became available with him as the narrator. I also very much enjoyed listening to Christine Lakin - I thought she did a great job with Renée's character and for me, the format of trading off between the two narrators really worked.

Superb

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However I am increasingly uneasy about a number of questions. Bosch listens to his obsessions, not to reason- will this ultimately end in disaster? Is he getting just a bit too weird? Are there too many dramatic last minute rescues in this book?

As a dog owner I thought it was unfair of Ballard to keep her dog in care so much and it must also have been very expensive! Could she afford it?

CAn LA really be as dreadful as it is pictured? Is it really full of gangs and murderers? If so what does this say about the US? How can its gun culture ever be addressed? Likewise its reliance on the car - a massive part of everyone’s life in LA which is almost a character of its own in the story, hiding in plain sight.

The voices are good, but I noticed a number of places where the narrators gave a false emphasis which altered the meaning.

A good listen ...

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Just to balance the unjust negative comment re the narration as entered below. I thought the combination of male and female narration was very clever, it provided a good insight into the male and female Bosch/Ballard characters' perspectives. The story itself was classic Michael Connelly.

Great story, excellent narration!

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