EricCWelch

Connelly is the excellent creator of the Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch series of police procedurals. His latest works have been a little different. [book:A Darkness More than Night] brings together two characters, Bosch and McCaleb (another Connelly character) in a story that pits one against the other, and this one that has neither. It concerns Cassie Black, ex-con on parole, who works at a car dealership in Los Angeles. She is haunted by the specter of the death of her lover and father of her child, who died during what was to be their last caper. She and Max had specialized in burglarizing the hotel rooms of Vegas high rollers while they were asleep in their rooms. Using sophisticated surveillance tools, they had been quite successful until the owner of the Cleopatra, an aging casino, hired Jack Karch, a local detective, to trap the thief. About to be caught, Max commits suicide by throwing himself through a window of the hotel he was about to burglarize, falling spectacularly to his death on the crap tables below. Their child, born to Cassie in prison, had been put up for adoption, and Cassie, learning that the adoptive family is about to move to France, wants to do one last score to have enough money to escape the country and take her daughter with her. Unfortunately, she doesn' realize that she is being maneuvered into a much more complicated scenario that will again involve Karch, the Mafia, two-and-a-half-million dollars and the deaths of several people. The key word, synchronicity, helps to unravel the plot. A great page-turner, but quite different from the Bosch series.