Lost Light

Ninth novel about Harry Bosch by Michael Connelly
0-316-15460-1OCLC50913555
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 21LC ClassPS3553.O51165 L67 2003Preceded byCity of Bones Followed byThe Narrows 

Lost Light is the ninth novel in Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series. It is the first Bosch novel to be narrated in first person; all prior Bosch novels had utilized an omniscient third-person style.

Plot summary

Lost Light is the first novel set after Bosch retires from the LAPD at the end of the prior story. Having received his private investigator's license, Bosch investigates an old case concerning the murder of a production assistant on the set of a film. The case leads him back into contact with his ex-wife Eleanor Wish, who is now a professional poker player in Las Vegas, and Bosch learns at the end that he and Eleanor have a young daughter.

The poem referenced in this work is from Ezra Pound's "Exile's Letter:"

What is the use of talking, and there is no end of talking,
There is no end of things in the heart.

CD

Lost Light is distinguished by the inclusion of a soundtrack CD, "Dark Sacred Night, the Music of Harry Bosch", to accompany the first hardback edition, featuring jazz music that Harry Bosch would have been listening to, including music of Art Pepper, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane.

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Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch series
  • The Black Echo (1992)
  • The Black Ice (1993)
  • The Concrete Blonde (1994)
  • The Last Coyote (1995)
  • Trunk Music (1997)
  • Angels Flight (1999)
  • A Darkness More Than Night (2000)
  • City of Bones (2002)
  • Lost Light (2003)
  • The Narrows (2004)
  • The Closers (2005)
  • Echo Park (2006)
  • The Overlook (2007)
  • 9 Dragons (2009)
  • The Drop (2011)
  • The Black Box (2012)
  • The Burning Room (2014)
  • The Crossing (2015)
  • The Wrong Side of Goodbye (2016)
  • Two Kinds of Truth (2017)
  • Dark Sacred Night (2018)
  • The Night Fire (2019)
  • The Dark Hours (2021)
  • Desert Star (2022)
Jack McEvoy series
  • The Poet (1996)
  • The Scarecrow (2009)
  • Fair Warning (2020)
Terry McCaleb series
Mickey Haller seriesOther novels
Adaptations
  • Blood Work (2002 film)
  • The Lincoln Lawyer (2011 film)
  • Bosch (2015 TV series)
  • Bosch: Legacy (2022 TV series)
  • The Lincoln Lawyer (2022 TV series)
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