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LOST LIGHT
by Michael Connelly
Little, Brown, April 2003
360 pages
$25.95
ISBN: 0316154601


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Lost Light is the most recent Harry Bosch mystery by Michael Connelly, however, the difference is now Harry is on his own, having retired from the police department.

Angella Benton was four years ago, right before a $2 million heist on a movie set for a production company she worked for. The case never closed, and now Harry Bosch is asked to investigate on his own by an ex-cop, Lawton Cross, who was seriously wounded during a robbery attempt at a bar, and now is confined to bed, and wheelchair. It seems that Cross is starting to remeber things from the crime scene he and his partner, Jack Dorsey investigated.

Harry is told to lay off this case by his former partner, Kizmin Rider, who is now in the chief's office. Then the FBI tells him to steer clear, officially, but unofficially, Roy Lindell, a former undercover agent Bosch met in Vegas, asks Harry to look into the three year old disappearance of a female agent who stumbled onto something involving the money from the heist. It seems this agent had contacted the cops involved investigating the heist, then three days later just disappeared.

The deeper Harry digs, the more he realizes the Benton murder had been used as window dressing to cover up the robbery, the murder of a security guard during the robbery, and finally the disappearance of a federal agent.

There are several secondary characters in this book that really stand out: a rogue FBI agent, Milton, who uses the badge as a means of threatening to get what he wants; Lindell, though major, in some ways, he comes more to life in this book, than in the previous one; and finally, Harry's ex, Eleanor Wish, who makes an appearance when Bosch has to go to Vegas for something.

The last 100 pages just gripped me, I couldn't put the book down. This is my first WOW book of 2003, and I don't know if there will be anything to compare this to. The last chapter holds a surprise for Harry that comes totally out of left field.

Reviewed by Steven M. Sill, April 2003

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