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 story

Found the music to be intrusive although the narrator was great. The story itself was one of the better ones in the series.

GREAT ending!

I did not like the music that was played in the beginning of. I was wondering when they were going to bring Maddie into the serious. I did it in reverse and watched the Amazon prime version before reading the books. 

Another fun listen

This is another excellent who-dun-it. The main character, Harry Bosch, is very believable and the novel written in a way that makes the reader feel they are inside his head, experiencing all disappointments and dangers along the way. The plot, like The Narrows, is smooth and sophisticated enough to keep you guessing. I think what really made this audio book for me was the narrator, Len Cariou. He just seems to be what one would expect an LAPD detective to sound like. Critique? The Bosch series follows a timeline and to really enjoy his development, I would have liked to start from the first one instead of the middle. Also, the narrotors are different. Great book overall.

Lost Light (Unabridged

Great book- It holds your imagination all through the reading. Lots of neat twists and turns throughout. I couldn't put it down.

Keeping up the standard

This is a top-notch Connelly and a top-notch detective thriller for anyone not acquainted with Connelly. Very absorbing, entertaining and paced just right. Hurray for Harry Bosch!

Music was a little too much

the book and story was okay the performance seemed a little over dramatic in the music was not needed in my opinion

This is the best book I've listened to so far

I've enjoyed a number of other books audited via Audible.com, but Lost Light is the best so far. Gripping story, Michael Connelly's books are now all on my Wish List.

And Len Cariou is probably the best narrator I've listened to. Certainly, his voice and narration style are _perfect_ for hard boiled detective novels.

Wow,

The ending of this book was pure shock. You’ll have to listen to it and find out why.

Not the best Bosch, but a good story

Great narrator! We got a little tired of some of the repetitive moments like the woman singing (groan), some of the similes cracked us up and were not supposed to! The story line is a great one and we were surprised so that is good, just not his best writing!

I loved this entire Bosch series

Sometimes the reader's voice were not the best for Harry Bosch's voice; but the story is so good, you get beyond it. In this story, Mr. Connelly gave Harry's career a great ending and Len Cariou did a great job. I now need another detective's career to follow.