A Darkness More than Night characters

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An LAPD homicide detective serving as the prosecution's central witness in the murder trial of filmmaker David Storey. Bosch is certain Storey confessed to him, but an unrelated staged killing begins to make Bosch himself look capable of acting outside the law.

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A retired FBI profiler living on Catalina Island after a heart transplant. Jaye Winston asks him to review the ritualized murder of Edward Gunn, drawing him back into investigative work and toward increasingly troubling conclusions about Harry Bosch.

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A Los Angeles County sheriff's detective who asks McCaleb for an independent reading of Edward Gunn's murder. She values his profiling experience and gives him access to a case whose staging has resisted an ordinary explanation.

First appears in chapter 2

McCaleb's wife, who shares his Catalina Island home and understands both his talent for investigation and the physical risk of becoming consumed by a case. She expects him to protect the family life he has built.

First appears in chapter 3

McCaleb's friend and neighbor on Catalina, familiar with his boat and routines. Lockridge provides practical help as the retired agent repeatedly travels to the mainland for the Gunn inquiry.

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A man found murdered in a carefully staged scene. Bosch had once investigated him for another killing without obtaining a conviction, giving both the victim and the elaborate symbols around his body a disturbing connection to the detective.

First appears in chapter 2

A successful filmmaker on trial for murdering actress Annabelle Crowe. Bosch says Storey made an incriminating admission during the investigation, so destroying Bosch's credibility could decide the case.

First appears in chapter 3

The actress whose death has brought David Storey to trial. The prosecution argues that Storey's relationship with her, the physical evidence, and his words to Bosch establish that he killed her.

First appears in chapter 2

The prosecutor trying David Storey. Langwiser relies heavily on Bosch's account of Storey's admission and must defend the case as questions about Bosch's conduct outside the trial begin to surface.

First appears in chapter 4

David Storey's defense attorney, a skilled courtroom strategist intent on separating Storey from the murder and portraying Bosch as an unreliable witness with a personal need to secure a conviction.

First appears in chapter 12

An investigator working for Storey's defense. His job is to find evidence that weakens the prosecution and to examine Bosch's history, methods, and vulnerabilities outside the courtroom.

First appears in chapter 8

Bosch's homicide colleague and a trusted connection while he spends much of the book in court. Rider helps him check the relationship between Gunn's death, the Storey defense, and the evidence being used against him.