The titles themselves of some of these books- Lost Light, A Darkness More Than Night-hint at the themes that permeate much of these novels, guided by Connelly's brooding paladin, detective Harry Bosch. Connelly's eloquence arises out of a kind of poetic worship of the absence of light, intimating that darkness itself has a kind of substance, or presence, or territory of mind. Using words, he paints in the reader's imagination, and his canvases are often variations of darkness. For the past 17 years, crime writer Michael Connelly has been portrayed contemporary Los Angeles as a similarly fantastical landscape populated by violence and corruption. (Little, Brown, 423 pages hardcover, $27.99) The Dutch painter Hieronymous Bosch used color on vast triptychs to articulate his fantastical visions of morality, in works such as The Garden of Earthly Delights.
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