Lost Light (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Connelly
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 2003
- Setting: The Los Angeles area and Las Vegas
- Principal Characters: Harry (Hieronymous) Bosch, Lawton Cross, Janis Langwiser, Roy Lindell, Kiz Rider, Keisha Russell, Linus Simonson, Eleanor Wish
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature, Police procedural, Novel
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Murder or homicide, Police, Twenty-first century, California, Los Angeles, Corruption, Money, Government, Terrorism or terrorists, Nevada
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA, Las Vegas, NV
Michael Connelly mystery novels featuring Harry Bosch, the ninth of which is Lost Light, are in a continuum of American crime fiction that began with the works of Raymond Chandler in the late 1930’s, was advanced by Ross Macdonald a quarter century later, and has come to include a plethora of writers, including many regionalists. Central to these hard-boiled mysteries are complex plots, realistic settings, and the exposure of corruption beneath a veneer of respectability, as well as a detective who often is both a wise-cracking tough guy and a romantic moralist with a mission....
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