Reviews
Len Cariou keeps the listener completely involved. His nuanced, well-paced reading draws one into the action, not letting us sit back as passive listeners. And his Harry Bosch is entirely believable--tired, a bit jaded, yet fiercely on the case., As always, Connelly does many things well. He hasinternalized police procedure and the way cops think; he knows them as well ashe knows himself. His prose is increasingly lean and muscular...His plot, soseemingly straightforward, builds to a series of surprises, both in theinvestigation and in Harry's personal life. In novel after novel, Harry hasbeen trying to save his soul, and as this one ends he finally, unexpectedly,has salvation in his grasp., Connelly's skill as a prose craftsman remains in full force. He writes about Los Angeles and its environs as poignantly and beautifully as anyone since Nathanael West., Connellynever disappoints...In Lost Light , Michael Connelly ventures into newterritory by having the taciturn Bosch narrate the story. It takes nerve andskill to tinker with a formula as successful as the Bosch series. Happily,Connelly has plenty of both... Lost Light has all of the ingeniousplotting and skillful writing that are Connelly's hallmarks., Reader Cariou...has the timbre and talent to capture thesound and the moods of Harry: thoughtful, tough, driven, yet surprisinglyhopeful. His treatment of the other characters--from a raspy-voiced, paraplegicex-cop to Bosch's disillusioned former partner Kizmin Rider--is nearly aseffective. The quality of the narration plus the added production details...resultin an intriguing, suspenseful audio noir package, as dark and edgy as itshero-narrator., Despite some shockingly sunny developments in his personal life, Bosch wears his depression like armor, making him the perfect hero for our paranoid age.
