Lost Light

Harry Bosch, Book 9

By: Michael Connelly

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

Only the money was real. Four years ago, LAPD detective Harry Bosch was on a movie set, asking questions about the murder of a young production assistant, when an armored car arrived with $2 million cash for use in a heist scene. In a life-imitates-art firestorm, a gang of masked men converged on the delivery and robbed the armored car with guns blazing. Bosch got off a shot that struck one of the robbers as their van sped away, but the money was never recovered. And the young woman's murder was in the stack of unsolved-case files Bosch carried home the night he left the LAPD.

Now Bosch moves full-bore back into that case, determined to find justice for the young woman. Without a badge to open doors and strike fear in the guilty, he learns afresh how brutally indifferent the world can be. But something draws him on, past humiliation and harassment. It's not just that the dead woman had no discernible link to the robbery. Nor is it his sympathy for the cops who took the case over, one of them killed on duty and the other paralyzed by a bullet in the same attack. With every conversation and every thread of evidence, Bosch senses a larger presence, an organization bigger than the movie studios and more ruthless than even the LAPD. The part of Bosch that will never back down finds as fatal an opponent as he's ever encountered - and there's no guarantee that Bosch will survive the showdown ahead.

Don't miss Detective Harry Bosch on the case in these Michael Connelly crime fiction novels.

©2003 Hieronymus Inc. (P)2003 Time Warner AudioBooks, a division of the AOL Time Warner Book Group

Critic reviews

• Audie Award Winner, Mystery, Fiction, 2004

"It's never pretty watching Harry [Bosch] edge toward connection with those he loves and then back away...but it just may be the most compelling train wreck in crime fiction." (Booklist, Starred Review)
"This exciting procedural is as good as any in the series." (Publishers Weekly)

A LOT OF GREATNESS

As with all Connelly books, the story is a grabber and holds your attention.

Len Cariou has the perfect voice I've always felt Bosch sounded.

The change to 1st person telling surprised me but certainly works, and starting/ending chapters with music was a nice touch.

Favorite Bosch so far!

I really liked this one a lot. Very pleased with the ending, too. Highly recommended.

They just keep getting better.

Wow. What a thought. I'm only halfway through the series and Connelly is still writing Bosch stories. Just as good as all the others perhaps better. Bosch really grows on you. Best plot. Excellent detail. In my dreams I know enough to become an LA homicide detective. Now onto the next one.

great listen

after Harry left the detective squad I wondered where the storyline would go. would have become another Philip Marlowe? the answer is no. still has the great Harry Bosch Style.

Also after several books in the series were really dragged down by narrators who did not do the characters voices Justice comma Len Cariou did an excellent job.

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer has nothing on Harry

Good read, reminiscent of the Mike Hammer series of the 50's but with an updated plot. The narrator makes a good story even better. The tone and inflection he delivers sets the perfect tone - he is Harry Bosche! If you listen while commuting, this one will make you sit in your garage when you get home, sucking fumes, just to hear more!

Just so happy!

As always GREAT story, no that's not correct...better. The icing on the cake is a new narrator from the last and looking forward I see he will be doing others.

best book of the series

I was hesitant to start this book after the ending of the last. it wouldn't be another police investigation but more of a P.I. story. but that story and the complex web of events surrounding it were amazingly woven together into another unpredictable tale, an amazing tale that had me tears at times, or simply speechless at plot turns.

great reader. great light musical effects that only added to the tension. highly recommend.

A great adventure!

This was my first Harry Bosch book and now I have to find all of the others. I think the narrator does great justice to the characters.

great book overall

The storyline sometimes is disjoint from book to book. it's going to give a specific example but it would be a spoiler to keep it to myself. Suffice it to say that the chronological details sometimes are way off from book to book. Michael Connelly always weaves a great story. the way some of the books are there in the series. then some others are very different it's centered around the same Harry Bosch. The only critical thing I thought over the years about reading his books is for a guy that made his career writing police novels is that he doesn't seem to be too savvy about his gun knowledge

Great story and performance

Once the story gets going, it's a great ride. As usual, lots of surprises and unexpected twists. The narrator is a vast improvement over the ones in the previous two books in the series.