Lost Light

Publisher and industry reviews

Jacket review

[An] enthralling and labyrinthine crime novel. THE SUNDAY TIMES Taut, pacy and with an agreeably dark atmosphere, this is a welcome return for the grizzled but all-to-human Harry Bosch. GOOD BOOK GUIDE 'Inmy view, Connelly is the best of the current crop of American crime writers and Lost Light is as gripping as anything he's done.' MAIL ON SUNDAY

UK Kirkus review

Bosch isn't like other cops, or ex-cops. Something different drives him, a sense of purpose that pushes him on, a desire to see the right outcome, whatever the cost. When he retired from the LAPD at the end of City of Bones, Bosch kept hold of a case file that had continued to intrigue him. The file concerned the case of the murder of a production assistant during a $2 million robbery of a movie set. A suspect had been caught and imprisoned for the killing, but now it seems some startling new evidence has emerged. Reviewing the case post-9/11, the LAPD now believe the stolen millions were used to support a terrorist training camp. In the scramble to find the people thought to be behind the plot, the FBI are prepared to release the killer to help them in their hunt for the terrorists. Everyone seems to have forgotten about the murder victim. But not quite. Harry Bosch, discretely pursuing his own lines of inquiry is uncomfortable with the latest turn of events and as he discovers a different angle on the case he finds himself on a collision course with his former colleagues in the LAPD and with the FBI. Once again Connelly shows himself to be an accomplished crime writer, with a likeable, believable chief protagonist in Bosch. Taught, pacey and with an agreeably dark atmosphere, this is a welcome return for both Connelly and the grizzled but all too human Harry Bosch. (Kirkus UK)