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Title: Lost Light by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0-446-61163-8 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (103 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A different kind of Harry
Comment: Lost Light feels a bit weird as you're reading it- it's strange that Harry Bosch is NOT a cop any longer. No authority to investigate, no badge to impress the people he's trying to gather data from, and the FBI breathing down his neck!
This book features Bosch looking into a case he started 4 years ago, but never solved. With one woman murdered, 2 million dollars stolen, 2 policemen who were shot- one dead and one left paralyzed and one missing FBI agent...there's a lot of work ahead! But, do all of these things tie in together, or are they just coincidence? And most importantly, who's responsible?
I enjoyed most of this book. I do agree with one reviewer in that it was a little hard to get into at first, I can't pin point why, it just was. Once you get into the story & the players, you're propelled along at a very quick pace. This is a great mystery, it will have you reading late into the night to figure out what happens next. However, I do have to say that the ending was not as clean as I think it could have been. I felt the conclusions were just a little shaky. It was a pretty good surprise towards the end though, so that makes this reading very worthwhile. Also, a few characters from other Bosch novels pop up, which is always cool, including his ex-wife!
Rating: 5
Summary: One of Connelly's best books in the Bosch series
Comment: I haven't been too excited by Michael Connelly lately. His last three books have had some fairly major problems with them that really detracted from my enjoyment, with _Chasing the Dime_, in particular, a real standout for poor writing.
So when I picked up his latest, _Lost Light_, a new Harry Bosch novel, I didn't know what to expect. I was very pleasantly surprised by a book that is one of the best he's ever written.
The book picks up with Harry a year after his retirement from the LAPD. He's got a comfortable pension that more than provides for his needs and he's looking for something to fill the time. Lately, he's been visiting an old jazzman at a retirement home and taking saxophone lessons, but it's not enough. So when he's called by another retired policeman, Lawton Cross, who was shot in the line of duty and is now paralyzed, Harry goes to see him. Cross wants him to look into an unsolved case that involves both of them. Four years earlier, Harry was investigating the murder of a young production assistant. Her body had been found with the clothes torn, in a manner that suggested a random sexual assault/ murder. When, a few days later, a movie set was robbed of $2 million in actual money, the earlier murder was re-evaluated and Harry and his partners lost the case, to Cross and his partner from Robbery-Homicide.
Harry retraces some of the work that was done and from there, the case gets even more complicated as it grows to include the disappearance of a star female FBI agent, and even overlaps with homeland security.
This is a very fast-moving story, told, unusually, from the first-person point of view, so that we get more insight into Harry and his thoughts and motivations. The sequences involving the homeland security plot thread are suitably scary and raise issues of constitutional rights and what can happen when the rules are basically thrown out the window. There's a rogue FBI agent in the book who makes the police who beat up Rodney King look fairly tame.
There aren't any of the rather [weak] plot twists that have hurt Connelly's recent books. It's all very believable and it ultimately builds to a very, very touching finale, though once again, as with the conclusion to _City of Bones_, it's kind of hard to see where Harry Bosch will go next. I know I for one will be looking forward to that next book.
Rating: 4
Summary: 3 1/2 Stars -- Worth Reading But Not Connelly's Best!
Comment: Let's start with the obvious to anyone who's read a book in the Harry Bosch series. Lost Light is a very well written mystery, the main character is one of the best developed and multi-dimensional to be featured in a mystery series, and the plot is complex and keeps you guessing. However, on a comparative basis, Lost Light is more slow paced and less action-packed and suspenseful. Perhaps Bosch's now being a private eye versus a cop has made it seem to me that he doesn't have the same toughness and "edge" that made him such a memorable character in earlier books in the series. It will be interesting to see what direction Connelly takes Bosch in upcoming books. If you read this book you'll see that Connelly has created several options for Bosch. I'll be anxious to travel along with Bosch (and some other characters Connelly has featured in other books) in his next adventure, The Narrows, which will be released soon.
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