Lost

By: Michael Robotham

Narrated by: Ray Lonnen

Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

Michael Robotham's Suspect, hailed as "a lightning-paced debut" by Entertainment Weekly, was an international best seller that raised the bar for thrillers. Now two characters from that acclaimed novel, Detective Vincent Ruiz and psychologist Joe O'Loughlin, return for the electrifying Lost. When Detective Ruiz is pulled from the Thames, he has a bullet in his leg, a photograph of a missing (and presumed dead) girl in his pocket, and absolutely no memory of what happened.

©2006 Michael Robotham (P)2006 Recorded Books, LLC

Critic reviews

"A thoughtful and subtle thriller, with convincing, three-dimensional characters." (Publishers Weekly)

Gripping

Lost is a very enjoyable book, listened to while driving in New Zealand in holiday.

There are so many twists and turns in the story and real insights into Detective Inspector Ruis and his motivations.

The reader was not as good as Sean Barrett reading Robottom but good enough not to distract.

Wooohooo!

Gripping from beginning to end! You will not regret this purchase. I couldn’t put it down!

Good story but performance difficult

Wish performance could have been equalized. Very difficult to hear sometimes as actor's voice dropped to a mutter etc. had to continually keep adjusting volume up and down.

Not great. skipped many parts.

The DI not as engaging as the psych but stuck with it. Narrator is good.

The end was still a surprise!

The narrative from DI Rulz’s perspective was an interesting way for the story to be pieced together, interleaving the clues from the present with the prior investigation. The ending surprised me. It felt perhaps a little rushed or too tidy but I am going to read number 3 in the series! The narrator’s cadence was excellent.

Roller coaster of emotions

There were so many endings in this novel and still it kept going. Not as satisfying as the first book, Suspect. Ruiz is the protagonist but you aren’t really on his side. He leaves a path of flawed theories and broken people. He’s not that great a detective. I got impatient to hear how he finally wrapped it up. Rather anticlimactic.

Different Main Character

NO SPOILERS. I have never read a series where they changed the main character on you. I wasn’t expecting it but I got over it quickly. If you’re going through the series you should read the stand alone Night Ferry next. Not part of the series but connected. I’ve really enjoyed this author, started with the Cyrus Haven books. Only real complaint is I get exhausted by ZERO descriptive features of any of the male characters and yet I can draw every female characters boobs and whether or not the are F-able. It grates on my nerves but perhaps he outgrows it later or becomes more descriptive of the male characters as a balance. Always great stories and incredible narrators. If you have a bad short term memory, I suggest noting the seemingly less important ones… there are a lot of characters.

Lost in Lost

Michael Robotham keeps the story going fuelling the plot with new details from the first chapter right through to the last. So often does the conclusion fall short, but not in this case. The case or plot is not far fetched and the characters are well developed. For me the narrator Ray Lonnen made the book all the better he does a superb job you can almost see and feel Vincent Ruiz as he works through his predicament. On the strength of this book I am very keen to read more Michael Robotham.

Liked all of the endings!

Michael Robotham's written another anti-police-procedural here. "Anti"? Well yeah. Once again the chain of command is crammed full of contentious hurdles for the lead character, and I'm kind of tired of reading about dysfunctional cops.
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Still, this is a kind of ingenious caper mystery with literal twists that kept my attention. Ray Lonnen brings a British tongue to the read that seems authentic yet remains accessible to my Yankee ears. I wish he'd do female voices a little better, but he does keep the entire cast impeccably straight with distinctive voices.
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I'm glad that I discovered Robotham with this novel, and look forward to him bobbing my imagination again. Oh, and BTW, those twists I mentioned up above? They crash in like tidal waves wrapping up the plot, over and over again. Can't explain any better than that without giving away too much, but it'll be cool to see if you agree with me.

A Good Read

I enjoyed listening to this story...believable characters, complex story line and a touch of humor to lighten the seriousness of the plot. I would listen to another of this author's books and would rate LOST as a 4.5.