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Harry Bosch has left the LAPD - but the discovery of a startling unsolved murder among his old case files means he cannot rest until he finds the killer.

When he left, he took a file with him - the case of a young woman murdered four years earlier. The crime was linked to a $2 million robbery on a movie set, and the LAPD think the money was used by terrorists.

Now, with time on his hands, Harry looks at the old file again. Something about the victim affected him deeply and the case has haunted him ever since. But when he decides to re-investigate, he falls foul of both his old colleagues and the FBI. And then someone from Bosch's past turns his world upside down...

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David Soul's gorgeous, gritty voice could exfoliate an iguana. (INDEPENDENT) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Harry Bosch is back in a superb new novel of the dark side of Los Angeles from this international bestselling crime writer. 'David Soul's gorgeous, gritty voice could exfoliate an iguana and the plot is convoluted and highly satisfactory' - Independent --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Allen & Unwin (15 December 2011)
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Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of over thirty novels and one work of nonfiction. With over eighty million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into forty-five foreign languages, he is one of the most successful writers working today. A former newspaper reporter who worked the crime beat at the Los Angeles Times and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Connelly has won numerous awards for his journalism and his fiction. His very first novel, The Black Echo, won the prestigious Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1992. In 2002, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the movie adaptation of Connelly's 1998 novel, Blood Work. In March 2011, the movie adaptation of his #1 bestselling novel, The Lincoln Lawyer, hit theaters worldwide starring Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller. His most recent New York Times bestsellers include The Law Of Innocence, Fair Warning, The Night Fire, Dark Sacred Night, Two Kinds Of Truth, and The Late Show. Michael is the executive producer of Bosch, an Amazon Studios original drama series based on his bestselling character Harry Bosch, starring Titus Welliver and streaming on Amazon Prime. He is also the executive producer of the documentary films, "Sound Of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story' and 'Tales Of the American.' He spends his time in California and Florida.

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Mr. D. J. Hall

One of the better ones

Reviewed in Australia on 6 October 2020

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Generally speaking, i think Bosch works much better as TV than in book form. Maybe thats because the dialogue is better than Connolly's descriptive writing. For me, Bosch is mainly about the character, and maybe Titus Welliver just won me over on the TV series. The plots are kinda silly, but i think that on TV I've become inured to that. In print there is too much time to think about it and see the absurdity.
Anyway, as they go, Lost Light is one of the better books. I don't remember it very well, which probably means it didn't offend me too badly. Some of these novels are as bad as a Nicholas Cage movie, with the hero going off on a misguided killing spree based on a leapt-to false premise which essentially serves to pad out what would otherwise be a routine case. I think a guy like Harry with all his experience should be across the need to connect actual evidence with his assumptions of guilt, especially given how many times he has gone off half-cocked in the past, but if anything his older self seems more prone to chase the wild goose than he was in the early books.
Lost Light is one of the better ones though.

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.I don't want to do r4eviews that's what I write gobbledygook

Reviewed in Australia on 12 October 2018

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Soal, a soal, a soal cake, please good missus a soul cake.
An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry,
Any good thing to make us all merry,
One for Peter, two for Paul, three for him who made us all.
Soal, a soal, a soal cake, please good missus a soul cake.

An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry,
Any good thing to make us all merry,
One for Peter, two for Paul, three for him who made us all..

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Bosch at his best

Reviewed in Australia on 6 January 2015

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Bosch is 52 years old and retired from the LAPD but he still has a mission. He can't forget Angella Benton, a beautiful young woman, strangled and violated on her 24th birthday, and left lying on the tiles in the entrance hall of her apartment building. Her hands were stretched out as if beseeching Bosch to find her killer. He hadn't found him then, but now he is a free agent and he intends to track the killer or killers down.

His search starts with Lawton Cross, one of the R&H investigators who took over the case when it became tied to a $2 million robbery at the film studio where Angella worked. Cross is now a paraplegic after taking a slug that lodged in his neck in a hold-up just a few months after he had taken on the case. He is living in wretched circumstances, desperate for the tot of whiskey that Harry smuggles in for him in exchange for information.

In many ways, this is Connelly at his darkest but also at his most poetic. His description of Cross whose whole body is frozen except for his eyes and the tongue that licks the last drop of whiskey from the corner of his mouth is unforgettable. His descriptions of Hollywood, "a place of takers and users, of broken sidewalks and dreams" matches Raymond Chandler at his best. You can almost hear Art Pepper's saxophone in the background and the candle Harry still holds for his ex-wife, Eleanor Wish is the only flicker of light.

The plot is fast paced with many twists and turns that keep the reader on edge. It seems nobody wants Angella's killer found except Bosch - not his ex-partner Kiz Rider, not even the FBI who do everything they can to stop him.

For a while, the world seems as dark as the tunnels in which Harry fought in Vietnam, and we are not sure if we can tell the goodies from the baddies. It is only at the end that Bosch rediscovers the lost light and brings the killers to justice. And perhaps after all there is some hope for a new beginning...

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I can't imagine anyone not loving Harry Bosch. This ...

Reviewed in Australia on 5 January 2015

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I can't imagine anyone not loving Harry Bosch. This is vintage Bosch, though now without the badge, but as usual many of his former side-characters are here too. And again as usual, there are incremental developments in the underlying character map, especially at the end. Clearly Connelly keeps very accurate records through all his series - I have never found any incompatibilities through the many Bosch and Haller stories, which is the mark of a thoroughly-planned series.

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Greg Byrne

Another great read from Michael Connelly!

Reviewed in Australia on 16 August 2019

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Wasn’t sure about this one as Harry is no longer a cop. But it follows the pattern set previously, ties up a couple of loose ends, and is an easy read. Highly recommended to all, but it is good to read the books in series order from book one. Makes more sense that way.. ENJOY!

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Fryboy

Never Disappointed

Reviewed in Australia on 14 June 2021

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Once again Michael Connelly grabs you from the start in this chapter in the life of Harry Bosch. It's difficult to put down as you follow the story and its subplots. Connelly challenges you, the reader to work out from the clues, just like Bosch, the solution to the crime. A great read!

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Gordon Bremner

Connelly Gets Better

Reviewed in Australia on 23 January 2015

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Harry Bosch, no longer a RH detective nibbles away at an old unsolved case sticking bits and pieces together, always ;
remembering the look of the young womans body before the case was taken from him and finally made its way
into the stacks of unsolved LA homicides. I consider this Bosch story to be Connelly;s best.
Bosch is totally focused and turns scraps of information into ever widening streams of evidence, cleverly
exploiting friends and fellow detectives as he rolls along.
Michael Connelly knows how to pace these Bosch crime stories and cleverly introduces well drawn characters
some we have met before and others who now become part of a complex case that moves inexorably
towards a very satisfying and surprising conclusion. A very good read

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Angelface

Intelligent empathetic thriller

Reviewed in Australia on 6 January 2018

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Harry Bosch weaves he way through a complicated plot until all is revealed and the strands fit together. He is smart, tough and human with his share of insecurities.

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Paul S

Rating this story 5 stars does not do it justice ... it is so much better than that.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2017

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What I love about the Harry Bosch series is the way Michael Connelly ensures that with each new book in the series (to date) he reveals new and different facets of Bosch's personality. Unlike earlier books in the series, this one is narrated in the first person. As a result, we see and experience events from his point of view.
In my opinion this is a much more personal and emotionally engaging story than its predecessors and it is so well written one can easily forget that Bosch is not actually a real person but a fictional character in a book.
In this story, Bosch has left the police force and is now a licensed private investigator. But he is haunted by one particular case from his past that had been taken from him in the midst of his investigation and reassigned to the FBI. The case, involving the murder of a young women, had been linked with a $2 million dollars robbery, money from which had been traced to a known terrorist. In post 9/11 USA this led to the involvement of the FBI and Homeland Security and the death of the young women became of secondary interest and remained unsolved. So, with time on his hands and a dogged determination to see justice served, Bosch decides to re-investigate this cold case. However, unlike the past, he now has no access to official police files. He discovers that his past achievements as a detective hold little sway with either the LAPD or the FBI, both of which resent his involvement in this case.
The story is full of twists and turns and quite a few surprises along the way. Normally I read a Bosch novel over the course of a few days so I can savour every twist and turn in the story. Not so with this one. I found it impossible to put down; I just had to know how it was going to end. In my opinion, this is an outstanding story, brilliantly written and one well worth reading.

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I’m definitely a fan

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 December 2019

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At first I wasn’t sure on the whole third person narrative, but I soon got past that. I liked being inside Bosch’s head and seeing a more subtle and vulnerable side to his persona. This was also helped by a good plot, good detail, reemergence of characters from previous books and the details of the settings etc that Connolly so brilliantly includes to keep you informed but also interested and intrigued enough to keep reading. Yes, some of it is far fetched but then i suppose that’s how it should be. If you like Bosch, you’ll like this. I’m going to read the next one in the sequence.

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Malcolm R

Enjoy the plot but dig no deeper

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 February 2018

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Harry is now retired but not putting his feet up. He starts scratching at a cold case and of course solves everything involved with apparent ease. That is the biggest problem with the plot, Homeland Security, FBI, DEA and any other acronym you care to mention is involved and has been for several years but no one has been able to fathom the problems until the genius H Bosch arrives; are they all that useless? Despite that the story is enthralling and very well told and up to the usual standard if not one of the best.

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Another Great Bosch Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 April 2003

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Michael Conelly is a writer who appears on my "first day buy" list. I have read all the books and am a great fan.
City of Bones, the previous Bosch installment, left me a little disappointed. I was also unsure that Bosch would return following that books conclusion.
I must say that Lost Light is a return to form for Bosch.
The hardest part of writing a "series" is the characterisation and development. The reader needs to feel that they are growing with the character and discovering more about them with each installment.
Connelly's strength is that long term development. You feel that you know and understand Bosch but then find out something that adds to your knowledge and keeps you hooked.
Here we find Harry hunting for the murderer of a film production assistant and leads onto the murder/abduction of an FBI agent and the murder of an LAPD Detecetive and the maiming of another detective.
All these events happened 3-4 years before. Harry is approached by the quadriplegic detective to find the killers and close the case.
We follow him through his hunt. There are visits from an FBI counter-terrorism group and the return of his ex-wife in Vegas.
Connelly weaves the story around these events and keeps us guessing as to the ultimate victim and perpetrators. Not every is as it seems in LA.
The end is surprising and, as in City of Bones, leaves you guessing as to Bosch's return.
There is a cameo appearance another character in private detective fiction when Harry acknowledges the presense of a Robert Crais character. Its a fleeting climpse so you may miss it.
I would recommend this. You can read it as a one off as it does not rely on early books to grip the reader. However, I would highly recommend the other Bosch stories and would say that you should read those first just to appreciate the character fully.
I can almost guarantee that you will enjoy this book.

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My hero!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 July 2013

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Harry, my hero ... Fast pace, great story, usual good guys and bad guys. Can't ask for anything more. Harry's now retired, but just can't make that break from his routine, so takes on a case pro bono (you see, I have the lingo). It leads him back into contact with characters from previous books (which is great) and eventually, of course, he solves the case. But not without many adventures along the way.

I love Michael Connelly's lead characters. They're always smart mouthed, witty and slightly flawed. The scene where Harry is embarrassed by his notebook is typical Connelly and had me cringing and sniggering in equal measure. I can't get enough of his books as the standard is consistently high. And I'd recommend it without a second thought, but make sure you've set plenty of time aside because you won't be able to put it down.

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