City of Endless Night

How it reads

City of Endless Night is thriller (police procedural thriller, specifically), and its dominant mood is dark. It goes to difficult places and doesn't look away. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in a big city setting, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are justice, secrets and power and politics. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It's a later book in a series — you'll usually want to start earlier. The ending resolves happily. At 416 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.