All about Lost Light Audiobook
Lost Light is the thirteenth audiobook written by Michael Connelly and the ninth audiobook featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch, as well as being the first Bosch novel to be narrated in the first-person. The textbook was published on 1 April 2003.
According to a July 2004 interview, Connelly originally intended for the title of Lost Light to be Dark Sacred Night, borrowing the lyric from the 1968 Louis Armstrong song, “What a Wonderful World.”
Audiobook Review
By: Michael Connelly
Series: Harry Bosch Audiobooks, book 9
Narrated by: Len Cariou
Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
Getting into Bosch’s head is well worth your time, and Connelly still keeps up his run of quality works. The ending of the novel is a surprise, but works with Connelly’s theme of balancing the light and darkness of his mission, and the last third of the book is absolutely riveting.
I enjoyed seeing Bosch working without his badge, overcoming the added obstacle of not having any official business looking into this case. While he may not be a cop, we still did get cameos by many of the series regulars, and it was great to check in with them. The characters are strong as always, with Bosch leading the pack.
I was surprised to find that Harry Bosch 09 – Lost Light Audiobook Online Streaming was narrated first person, something I always enjoy. I hadn’t run across that in a Harry Bosch book yet. The case itself was gripping with plenty of twists and turns to keep us engaged up until the end. I listened to the audio version narrated by Len Cariou, who does a great job except for one character. Fortunately, that character isn’t a major player in the action of the book.
Plot 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.
