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)

Great book. Well read.

Terrific work of fiction with flourishes of literary brilliance. The recording is sound and the reading is well done.

Keep my interest

Keep my interest. Did figure some out before the end. Would recommend. Done well. Yes

I couldn't stop listening.

This book was so good. I spent 2 nights up until midnight listening and knitting. way to go Michael Connelly.

Perfectly, elegantly constructed mysteries

This was my first Bosch, after Chasing the Dime (which was Connelly, but not Bosch). Connelly's ability to set up a story, get his ducks in a row and then mow them down at the end is inspiring. He also displays an intellect that's just out of the reach of the reader delivering completely unexpected but clearly foreshadowed and plot consistent twists to his narrative. I love his plays and like to try to guess how they're going to iron out. With Connelly, you can play detective right along side Bosch and try, if you will, to figure out the end. Very fun and intriguing. Will add that there was one weakness (or something I didn't get) and that was the resistance of Homeland Security and the pressure they put on the FBI and Bosch because, in the end, I'm not sure there was a connection. Still, I'm giving it 5 stars because it's such a compelling, wonderfully, character driven, simple to follow, narrative.

Addicted to Bosch series!,,,

Would you listen to Lost Light: Harry Bosch Series, Book 9 again? Why?

I started listening to these out of order. I was so intrigued by some of the pieces of Harry's past that was hinted to that I went back to the beginning. This was another great read. I didn't want to get to work - that meant stopping my story and quite often I was riveted to a particular part of the story. Great book!

Have you listened to any of Len Cariou’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I like Len the best of the readers on the Bosch series....

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes... If I'd had the time I could have listened all day!

Any additional comments?

Another winner

Lost Light by Michael Connelly

A very good book jammed with information to keep the mind going and to make you want to stay in the car once you get home. I have just recently discoverd, through audible, Michael Connelly and Harry Bosch. "Lost Light" reader Len Cariou is excellent and should read all of the Bosch books. It's a shame audible doesn't carry the entire Connelly body of books. I highly recommend "Lost Light" to listeners.

Excellent!

Good story, good reading and good music. I will add Michael Connelly to my favorites.

Another Good Harry Bosche Book, But...

Any additional comments?

While I generally do like Len Cariou's narrating work, in this book there were lots of parts that I couldn't hear very well, almost like he was whispering.
But I will still recommend it.

The story that folds and unfolds

It is a gripping story about people you get to know. I was transported into another dimension and taken down a stream that turned into a river and resolved into the sea. Connelly takes ordinary details and makes them come alive. This story breaths with life and is a nice morality play that reassures a reader that justice can survive in a cynical world.

Another decent Bosch book

Although slightly formulaic, I have been enjoying this series. This is the sixth Bosch book that I've listened to (I'm into my seventh as I write this) and this one lives up to the standard set way back in The Black Echo. I have not listened to them in order, but b/c they are, for the most, part stand alone stories it has not hampered my understanding of or enjoyment for the series.

There is quite a bit of Harry against the world in all of the Bosch novels, as I think I've heard mentioned in other reviews. It can be stlightly annoying, but I guess it should be chalked up to an unfortunately necessary part of Bosch's character being a sort of lone-wolf type of detective. The stories are definitely well constructed, the plots are reasonably suspenseful, and you always have a couple of last minute, mostly surprising plot twists that may not have you jumping out of your seat going, "No way!!!," but will at least have you thinking, "Well played, Mr. Connelly."

One thing I feel I need to mention about this book in particular, at least in audio form, is the narrator's voice of quadriplegic, former detective Lawton Cross. In one part there is a very lengthy dialog betw. Cross and Bosch. Len Cariou's breathless, rasping and gasping Cross got VERY annoying and difficult to listen to after a while. I'm sure he is doing a very realistic quad voice, but for the entertainment purposes I don't think it was necessary for him to be THAT realistic. It was almost painful to listen to, as I'm sure was Mr. Cariou's intention, but it just got annoying.

I don't know if I would have given this book 4 stars if "read" on its own, but I like the familiarity a recurring character provides and Lost Light did not disappoint as far as that goes.