Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. McCaleb started his search for details on Gunn's murder with an interview of detective Harry Bosch. Bosch, who had been assigned the case of the prostitute's murder and was certain Two stories are being told interspersed. Gunn was found murdered in his home in an elaborate method patterned after a scene from a painting. Detective Jaye Winston is in charge of the investigation which has stalled. She asks retired FBI profiler McCaleb to help her. And this is the judgment: because the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.

As Terry’s investigation into Bosch builds into an elaborate situation using historical art and ritualistic murder, uncovered clues seem to mysteriously overlap in strange ways with Bosch’s own movie director court case. As another surprising revelation unfolds, the two cases begin to pull McCaleb and Bosch into each other’s crosshairs in a dangerous game of cat and mouse and life and death. But the book, the title says, focuses on the (spiritual) darkness in the life and soul of Harry Bosch, facing his own lonely existence, seeing deeply into case after case of human depravity, evil, in this case a woman killed in a sexual act by some predator (you know right from the beginning who this is, so the police procedural aspect of this is not filled with twists and turns). FYI: My cat makes a better profiler than Terry McDerpface. The guy is so unimportant, such a non-entity in his own book that even the Goodreads book description of some editions can't bother getting his name right. It lists his first name as "Terrence", but he's actually a "Terrell". I find this amusing. (As a GR Librarian, I did attempt to edit it but I'm not sure if it took, and honestly, don't care that much. Let him be Terrence or whatever if the GR gods will it.) stars. I had a few complaints, but the series is so good that I’m glad I read it, and I’m on to the next.special thanks to Raymond Chandler for inspiring the title of the book. Describing in 1950 the time and place from which he drew his early crime stories, Chandler wrote, ‘The streets were dark with something more than night.’ Sometimes they still are”--Connelly

Obviously Bosch is a flawed and imperfect man, and that is why he is compelling and interesting and his series didn't stop at a duology, Twobook McWho. But a sadistic killer he is not. There's never a single doubt in my mind on this point, no matter how hard TERRENCE tried to force it all to fit. And it was so frustrating that he tried so hard to make it fit. Being forced to watch him "work" this case was exhausting to my eyes because they kept trying to roll out of my skull every 2 minutes or so as the logical leaps and fallacies abounded.This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. We Meet Again: McCaleb, word for word, after using the term "UnSub" to refer to Gunn's killer in his notes. And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

Harry Bosch is a detective in the Los Angeles Police Department who almost always closes his cases, but is usually on the wrong side of his superiors. This 9th book in the 'Bosch Universe' pairs two popular Michael Connelly characters: Harry Bosch and Terry McCaleb. The book can be read as a standalone. The light has come into the world, and people who do evil things are judged guilty because they love the dark more than the light.

Unfortunately, Terry McBlah has a starring role, and this book is more of his story than a Bosch story. Which is... fine. It's fine. If I ever do a re-read of this series, I'll just skip this dud.