Lost Light
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4.3 • 141 Ratings
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Publisher Description
LAPD detective Harry Bosch discovers a startling unsolved murder among his old case files, and he cannot rest until he finds the killer.
Fed up with the hypocrisy of the LAPD, Harry Bosch has resigned and is forced to find a new way of life. But retirement doesn't suit him. He has always devoted himself to justice and is still drawn toward protecting-or avenging-those whom the law has failed.
When he left the LAPD, Bosch took a file with him, the case of a murder on a movie set during a two million dollar robbery four years earlier. The LAPD-now operating under post 9/11 rules-believe the stolen money was used to finance a terrorist training camp. Thoughts of the original murder victim are lost in the federal zeal, and when it seems the killer will be set free to aid the feds' terrorist hunt, Bosch quickly finds himself in conflict with both his old colleagues and the FBI. He cannot rest until he finds the killer-with or without a badge.
Michael Connelly received the Maltese Falcon Award from the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan for Lost Light, which was judged the best private eye novel published in Japan in the previous year. This is Michael Connelly's second Falcon Award, his first being for The Black Ice.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Award-winning former crime reporter Connelly (The Black Echo; City of Bones) hits all the right notes with this latest in his Edgar-winning mystery series featuring sax-playing L.A. detective Harry Bosch. Even though this marks the ninth outing for Harry, the principled, incorruptible investigator shows little sign of slowing in his unrelenting pursuit of justice for all. Disillusioned by his constant battle with police hypocrisy and bureaucracy, Harry quits the department after 28 years on the job. Like so many ex-cops before him, he finds retirement boring: "I was staying up late, staring at the walls and drinking too much red wine." He decides to take advantage of his newly minted private-eye license and get back to work. The case he chooses one that he had been briefly involved in four years before is the puzzling unsolved murder of 24-year-old Angella Benton. Angella's death is linked to the theft of $2 million from a film company foolishly employing real cash as a prop on an action-movie set. Harry patiently follows the bloody trail from Angella's violated body through the Hollywood heist to the disappearance of an FBI computer expert and the shooting of two LAPD cops. His investigation eventually leads him to the elite terrorist hunters of the new Department of Homeland Security. Few will follow every twist and turn of the labyrinthine plot, but no matter. The fun comes in watching Harry slowly and brilliantly separate the seemingly impossibly knotted strands and then knit them back into whole cloth. This exciting procedural is as good as any in the series, and Connelly's concluding coda has a kicker about Harry's private life that will draw gasps of astonishment from longtime readers. (One-day laydown Apr. 1)
Customer Reviews
Excellent.
I was gripped by this one to the end. Not all Connelly novels do it, but this one made it difficult to let go each day to do the other things in life. The plot was complicated and I needed a brief “replay” each day to keep up with it. I simply didn’t want to put the book down as it was both thrilling and poetic. Yea to Harry and Mr Connelly!