The Overlook (Harry Bosch Series)

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In this book there is one chapter/situation in which Connelly really draws a scary picture of the kind of damage terrorism has done and how the trust and freedom of speech & religion gets trampled because with the current mood in the US officially sanctioned murder gets swept under the rug. It is a really well written chapter in the book and great is my relief to see the main characters being disgusted about what happened. At the beginning of The Overlook, we discover that Detective Harry Bosch is now in Homicide Special, a part of the prestigious Robbery Homicide Division within the LAPD. Harry had been working open-unsolved cases in the last two books, The Closers and Echo Park. Given his motto, that everybody counts or nobody counts, does it really matter what division Harry is in?

in the Harry Bosch detective series by Michael Connelly, and not by any means one of the best in the series. Maybe it's the weakest so far for me. It was published in 2007, still in the early years in the manic angry years post-9/11, and the killing seems to involve a dangerous substance that could poison the population, possibly a terrorist plot. The Overlook is a much shorter Harry Bosch novel than the others I have read, in fact it felt a bit like a novella and it missed some of the characterisation we are used to from Michael Connelly. That said, it was all story and happened in real time so it had a bit of a different feel to the stories that take place across a week or so. Throughout the book, there are many genre conventions incorporated in the story. One of those was a red …show more content… The fear of terrorism brings in the FBI and ratchets up the suspense to an almost unbearable point, especially with the twists it takes”I re-read ECHO PARK [2006] (Harry Bosch Novel 12) this past summer, one of my very favorites among the first dozen installments of the book series. I decided to read at least one more in the series before the end of this year and decided upon a re-read of THE OVERLOOK [2007]. Harry Bosch, Ignacio Ferras (new partner) & Rachel Walling (FBI - w/some past romance) assigned. They need to find who was the murderer & why his wife (Alicia Kent) was left behind? There is no doubt in my mind ... Connelly is brilliant! Even with a purely plot-oriented novel, he has made sure that Bosch loses none of the flavour or depth of character so carefully built up in twelve previous novels. His interaction with Walling is both hot and heated (if you understand the subtle distinction). The jurisdictional squabbling and in-fighting has a definite tinge of realism and, frankly, it is difficult as a reader to sit in judgment in this particular case and take sides. Bosch and Walling, the FBI and the LAPD were all right and wrong at various moments in the novel!

A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Decimotercera entrega de la serie Harry Bosch, publicada en 2007. Aquí Bosch se emparejará con su nuevo compañero Ignacio Ferras, en un intento por resolver un asesinato aparentemente cometido por la mafia en el llamado “Observatorio” de Mulholland Drive. También aparecerá Rachel Walling, lo que le da un valor añadido al relato. Bosch examines the victim’s Porsche, left at the lookout with the trunk open, showing strange indentations and he learns the deceased is medical physicist, Stanley Kent, who has access to radio-active isotopes stored at several hospitals in the valley, used in the treatment of cancers. But Eh. This was not my favorite Bosch. After a couple of home-runs with this series, this was definitely a disappointment. About half the length of his usual books, Connelly uses this to just show readers excerpts from his other books. I hit the finish line with this book at 74 percent I think. The remaining was just excerpts.Well Harry keeps looking around the doctor's house. Something isn't right there and I loved this part because, as a reader, you become Harry. You see what he sees and yep, you know things aren't right and had I read 1001 crime mysteries instead of only 1000 I might have seen what Harry didn't. (I didn't.)