#63 in Crime & mystery
Dark Sacred Night
- 379
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 6 weeks on the list, peaked at #1
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Our view
“Dark Sacred Night” pairs Harry Bosch with Renée Ballard in a sombre Los Angeles crime novel that ends well. In the twenty-first Bosch novel, the second with Ballard, each detective brings a case of their own. Some readers feel the team-up comes a book too soon and leaves less room for Ballard; others find the opening tangled or wish the cases were more interesting. A book for followers of Michael Connelly’s detectives.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Dark Sacred Night is the 32nd novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the 21st novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. It is the second to feature Renee Ballard. The book was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2018.
Reading order · Harry Bosch
Full order & progress →- The Black EchoStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - The Black Ice
7.77.7 / 10 - The Concrete Blonde
8.08.0 / 10 - The Last Coyote
8.08.0 / 10 - Trunk Music
7.97.9 / 10 - Angels Flight
7.97.9 / 10 - A Darkness More Than Night
7.77.7 / 10 - City of Bones
7.87.8 / 10 - Lost Light
7.97.9 / 10 - The Narrows
7.87.8 / 10 - The Closers
7.97.9 / 10 - Echo Park
7.97.9 / 10 - The Overlook
7.77.7 / 10 - Nine Dragons
7.77.7 / 10 - The Drop
7.97.9 / 10 - The Black Box
7.87.8 / 10 - The Burning Room
7.87.8 / 10 - The Crossing
8.08.0 / 10 - The Wrong Side of Goodbye
7.97.9 / 10 - Two Kinds of Truth
7.97.9 / 10 - Dark Sacred NightThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - The Night Fire
8.08.0 / 10 - The Dark Hours
7.87.8 / 10 - Desert Star
7.97.9 / 10 - The waiting
7.77.7 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 127 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 46% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.2 | 127 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Dark Sacred Night?
It has 379 pages — shorter than 64% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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