LOST LIGHT by Michael Connelly

 Finished We 10/25/23

This is a hardback that Janny loaned to me and she picked it up at a garage sale. This is one of the later books in the Harry Bosch series.

I was surprised to learn (as was Harry) that his wife was pregnant when she broke up with Harry and went to Las Vegas to become a professional gambler. Harry and Maddie, his four year old daughter are introduced at the end of the novel. 

From the book's page at Wikipedia:

"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.

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."

Harry was working on a murder investigation about a young woman who was murdered. She worked at a bank that was in the process of loaning a movie production company two million dollars to use as a prop for a film. Money was stolen, people within the heist were murdered, and the culprits were never apprehended. As a private investigator, Harry figures exactly what happened and who was responsible. 

I really liked the novel in that it was concerned with only one, big case. Sometimes Harry works on a couple of separate cases and sometimes this is a little confusing. However, I would read anything written by Michael Connelly.