Besides Bosch, there are other heroes stumbling amidst the chaos within the city of dark angels. A lover of jazz, Bosch's music is like the discordant squeal of a saxophone: piercing, passionate, and when prolonged, painful to the ear. We are grateful that he is trudges through the darkness with his feeble lantern of determined justice, because we do not have the same courage as he does. We admire his valor yet simultaneously pity his shortcomings.
Far from perfect, Bosch is a flawed diamond. 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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