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El Observatorio (Harry Bosch #13)
by
Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
Despues de aclararse el desastre policial de Echo Park, Harry Bosch ha dejado Casos Abiertos y pertenece a la unidad Especial de Homicidios; tiene nuevo jefe, Larry Gandle; y nuevo compañero, Iggy Ferras. A medianoche, mientras escucha un disco de jazz en la oscuridad, recibe la llamada para investigar el primer caso en su nuevo destino. El Doctor Santely Kent ha sido hal...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
December 15th 2008
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The Overlook is Connelly's latest Harry Bosch detective novel. The book was written as a 16 part serial novel for the New York Times Magazine and it shows. I'm a big Bosch fan and I always enjoy reading about him but I am a little disappointed in this book. As one might expect with a serial novel, many chapters are disjointed and Connelly does not focus on character development. Rachel Walling is again back in Bosch's life and while Connelly mentions the relationship, he doesn't do much to d...more
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Rabid Connelly fans only - newbies stay away.
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I couldn't understand why this book lacked the depth of previous Harry Bosch novels until I learned it had been serialized in a magazine and then published as a book. The book read like someone held a gun to Connelly's head and demanded triple-time story development and resolution.
I don't know why Connelly even gave Bosch a LAPD partner but I guess LAPD protocol required it. Iggy, the partner in this book, was a new one and essentially ignored - Bosch generally had him running errand...more
I don't know why Connelly even gave Bosch a LAPD partner but I guess LAPD protocol required it. Iggy, the partner in this book, was a new one and essentially ignored - Bosch generally had him running errand...more
10 anni con Harry Bosch è qualcosa di speciale da festeggiare per chi, come nel mio caso, è cresciuto con i magici thriller di Micheal Connelly.
Libro leggermente più corto della media, appena 200 pagine, ma ugualmente intenso e niente affatto scontato. Il tocco magico di Connelly è perfettamente rinoscibile in ogni sua pagina.
In questo libro sono presenti tutti i tratti salienti della saga del dective Bosch. Presumo che questo libretto non sia altro che una pura e semplice celebrazione di uno de...more
Libro leggermente più corto della media, appena 200 pagine, ma ugualmente intenso e niente affatto scontato. Il tocco magico di Connelly è perfettamente rinoscibile in ogni sua pagina.
In questo libro sono presenti tutti i tratti salienti della saga del dective Bosch. Presumo che questo libretto non sia altro che una pura e semplice celebrazione di uno de...more
A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered on the overlook above the Mulholland Dam. LAPD detective Harry Bosch is sent on what appears to be a routine investigation. On site, things escalate when it is discovered that vials of cerium are missing and now are in unknown hands. When the murder is suspected to be part of a terrorist plot to poison a major American city, Special FBI Agent Walling declares the matter to be of National Security. Bosch thinks otherwise ...more
Michael Connelly- The Overlook (Vision Books 2008) 3.75 Stars
Dr. Stanley Kent has just been discovered on the overlook with two bullets in the back of his head. Now Harry Bosch must try to find the killer, but he isn’t the only one interested in this case. Agent Walling of the FBI has been handed the case as it has taken a terrorist angle. Bumping heads as Bosch fights to keep his case; they must try to solve this case before things escalate out of their control.
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Dr. Stanley Kent has just been discovered on the overlook with two bullets in the back of his head. Now Harry Bosch must try to find the killer, but he isn’t the only one interested in this case. Agent Walling of the FBI has been handed the case as it has taken a terrorist angle. Bumping heads as Bosch fights to keep his case; they must try to solve this case before things escalate out of their control.
The intro...more
It’s short but still worth reading. I wouldn’t want to miss it. And it has the unexpected which is hard to do.
REVIEWER’S OPINION:
This isn’t the best in the series, but I’m starting to think I may have been too harsh with some of my 3 ½ stars for previous books in the series. I was tempted to give this 3 ½ stars, but I upped it to 4 because it kept my interest, and because it’s part of a great series. I love Bosch’s instincts and actions. Again he makes other cops and the F...more
REVIEWER’S OPINION:
This isn’t the best in the series, but I’m starting to think I may have been too harsh with some of my 3 ½ stars for previous books in the series. I was tempted to give this 3 ½ stars, but I upped it to 4 because it kept my interest, and because it’s part of a great series. I love Bosch’s instincts and actions. Again he makes other cops and the F...more
Three and a half stars.
I like the Harry Bosch books. I don't read them all the time. It's been my experience that if I read novels featuring the same character back to back I become bored. It's like watching a long running series on television. It gets comfortable, but predictable.
About once a year I'll read one or two of the Bosch novels. As I wrote in my review of The Black Echo I was around when the series began in 92 and I like it.
So last Saturday a loca...more
I like the Harry Bosch books. I don't read them all the time. It's been my experience that if I read novels featuring the same character back to back I become bored. It's like watching a long running series on television. It gets comfortable, but predictable.
About once a year I'll read one or two of the Bosch novels. As I wrote in my review of The Black Echo I was around when the series began in 92 and I like it.
So last Saturday a loca...more
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Ok, I figured this one out without a lot of difficulty. That being said, I read on to the end and enjoyed the book nonetheless.
When I first encountered the plot element of missing radioactive material, I got a sinking feeling. Another author I really enjoy, Steve Martini, used to write great courtroom fiction. Then, he got the idea to turn his lawyer main character into James Bond. It doesn't work. Read the reviews of Martini's trilogy. Hopefully, he will get the message from h...more
When I first encountered the plot element of missing radioactive material, I got a sinking feeling. Another author I really enjoy, Steve Martini, used to write great courtroom fiction. Then, he got the idea to turn his lawyer main character into James Bond. It doesn't work. Read the reviews of Martini's trilogy. Hopefully, he will get the message from h...more
I enjoy Michael Connelly's novels but this was not my favorite. All of the action takes place in about 48 hours, maybe less. It was hard to follow at times. Los Angeles Police Detective Harry Bosch, recently assigned to Homicide, is called in the middle of the night to investigate what looks like an assassination of a doctor in an area of Los Angeles called the "overlook", because it overlooks the city. The doctor's wife has been left hogtied in her bedroom. In order to save her life,...more
It's FBi agent Rachel Walling back in Harry Bosch's life. And somehow the on-and-off thing between these two horribly damaged people keeps flickering on and off. Personally, I wouldn't wish either of them as a romantic partner on my worst enemy... but they're fascinating crime-fiction characters: tenacious, insightful, and principled in their own ways. The murder that starts off this book--which Harry is investigating-- involves the theft of cesium from a hospital. Terrorism is the o...more
Reading's more fun than it used to be, when all you could glean from a book was what was originally there between the covers. Now you can check out the author's web site, read other people's thoughts about the book on Goodreads.com, and even get YouTube videos on your smart phone of the author reading or talking about the book. What a wonderful world!
In this case, the paperback edition I read had plenty of built-in supplementary material. Originally published in serial form in the Ne...more
In this case, the paperback edition I read had plenty of built-in supplementary material. Originally published in serial form in the Ne...more
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Oh dear. This was bad. Really bad. The things I've enjoyed about the Harry Bosch series and the other Michael Connelly novels were completely missing in The Overlook. Part of this is probably due to the original format of the novel in The New York Times Magazine. I can imagine that this was fun to read in short bits once a week, but it didn't work in this format. Harry was grating and underdeveloped, Iggy was pitiful, and Rachel had no distinctive characterization whatsoever.
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The Overlook, by Michael Connelly. A.
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Oh, I’m so glad Connelly isn’t killing Harry Bosch off yet. In fact in this book he seems healthier than ever, and just as stubborn and opinionated as always. He is assigned to a new unit now, back in the special homicide unit, and he has a rooky partner he’s to train in. The first call he is sent out on in the middle of the night looks to be an execution style killing, someone found at The Overlook. Soon after he ...more
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Oh, I’m so glad Connelly isn’t killing Harry Bosch off yet. In fact in this book he seems healthier than ever, and just as stubborn and opinionated as always. He is assigned to a new unit now, back in the special homicide unit, and he has a rooky partner he’s to train in. The first call he is sent out on in the middle of the night looks to be an execution style killing, someone found at The Overlook. Soon after he ...more
What can I say....I thoroughly enjoy reading Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch Detective series. The Overlook was Harry Bosch at his grumpy, feisty, diligent detective best and up against the FBI who were trying to take his case away from him because of possible terrorist involvemtn. Very good police detective/mystery read! I'll be starting to read the next book in the series while I'm on the plane heading for my vacation at the end of this month. Can't wait!!
Okay I love Connelly's Harry Bosch's books. I've read almost all of them. From this website I find that this is Bosch book #13. Well that may be no coincidence because I didn't like it. It was weak. The weakest of all I've read. This novel was written around 2005 and it promised to have an exciting subplot of terrorism and islamic fundamentalist extremism which is fun...but it turned out to be a moral tale in why we shouldn't believe in all that our fears are telling us and how everyone is actua...more
Michael Connelly originally published The Overlook as a serialized novella in the New York Times Magazine; the 16 sections contained 3,000 words each. Although expanded to novel form, The Overlook weighs in as a good, if slim (and perhaps, as a few critics claim, slight), addition to the Harry Bosch series. For the most part, the novel succeeds in maintaining Connelly's trademark fast-paced action, plot twists, suspense, and spare, humorous writingall over the course of 12 hours. Some reviewer
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this had to be shortest book i have read in years. it was good book. bosch is called to a case off muholland dr. in a place called the overlook. a dr.is found killed execution style. the fbi is called in and everyone knows the relationship or lack there of between the two departments. bosch is again on a case with his former lover rachel walling. because it is in LA, it should be bosch's case, but a deadly radioactive substance is found missing and it becomes a possible act of terrorism an...more
Dr. Stanley Kent is found shot dead near Mulholland Drive, and Harry Bosch is glad to get the case. When he arrives to the scene, he discovers Kent had access to some dangerous radioactive materials and was on FBI's watch list, and it seems the case is a threat to the national security. Harry ends up investigating the case with FBI's Rachel Walling, though both try to run the case separately... Bosch's instincts tell there is something more and something else.
Quite short for a Bosch, ...more
Quite short for a Bosch, ...more
This book does not have the depth that I have come to expect from Michael Connelly. The novel is the result of a serialization that appeared in the New York Times Sunday magazine. Episodic writing doesn't give time for story or character development that we have come to expect from Connelly.
I give the author credit for taking his writing in a new direction. Such an event undoubtedly adds depth to Connelly's writing skills; but the novel resulting from this serialization was a bit ...more
I give the author credit for taking his writing in a new direction. Such an event undoubtedly adds depth to Connelly's writing skills; but the novel resulting from this serialization was a bit ...more
Three stars only because it's a pretty thin book. This appeared first as a serial in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, where I read it. I finally got around to rereading it in book form (you get a different impression than when you spread it over a couple of months). It would be interesting to know what, if anything, differed between the publications.
Nice twists in this book. Connelly is good at introducing and elaborating on details that end up having no importance at all, but keep...more
Nice twists in this book. Connelly is good at introducing and elaborating on details that end up having no importance at all, but keep...more
I keep having to give Connelly novels mediocre reviews because I absolutely love them but then, at they end, they have some BIZARRE twist that spoils it for me. The good news is, I'm shocked every time. The bad news is, I find his ending-twists sort of ludicrous.
It's still worth the ride, though. This one is no exception. It's much shorter than a usual Bosch novel, was written as a serial for The New York Times Magazine, and has a tighter, quicker plot with a terrorist angle. It's mo...more
It's still worth the ride, though. This one is no exception. It's much shorter than a usual Bosch novel, was written as a serial for The New York Times Magazine, and has a tighter, quicker plot with a terrorist angle. It's mo...more
A most exciting, enjoyable mystery, but not one of my favorites. For me, this book had a reality disconnect with the killers going to just too much trouble for a murder, that could have been accomplished in a much simpler, common-sense, less dramatic manner that would not have drawn the attention, technology, and expertise of every law enforcement agency in the nation, as this method would have. Any smart criminal would probably understand the value of KISS methodology, because the more compli...more
This is the 13th book of the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly. Harry has again been reassigned, and is now working the high profile cases; Harry is called to the scene of a murder and learns that the victim might have given his killers enough nuclear material to build a dirty bomb. Of course, Harry butts heads with the FBI agents who are assigned to investigate the possible terrorist aspects of the case. As usual things are not what they appear, but Harry solves the murder, recovers th...more
CD unnabridged/Thriller: I thought this reading was abridged because it was only five CDs. However, it is just a really short book. This is my first Connelly book and it was a disappointment. It is really simple, too simple. There is no character development and it seem like Connelly phoned it in to his editor.
The narrator should stay away from audiobooks. I am sure he is a good actor, but he has no upper register. Therefore he cannot do female voices. Everyone but Bosch, his partner and ...more
The narrator should stay away from audiobooks. I am sure he is a good actor, but he has no upper register. Therefore he cannot do female voices. Everyone but Bosch, his partner and ...more
Yet another great read by Michael Connelly. Bosch is back on the LAPD after coming out of his retirement. This is the Bosch I like best. The nitty gritty challenger. The man who'll break all the rules necessary to get his man. The man who can't seem to keep a partner. Or a woman. This story was good because it involved a murder, a kidnapping and terrorism. Rachel Walling also makes a comeback and I like when she is involved with Bosch. Does she have a stand-alone novel yet? I believe she would m...more
"Not one of Michael Connelly's best works, but well worth a read all the same. Detective Harry Bosch investigates a murder case tied to [return]the disappearance of radioactive material believed to be targeted for making a dirty bomb. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security come into the picture along with the expected inter agency rivalry and reek havoc on Harry's investigation. Harry once again teams up with his ex-lover, FBI Agent Rachel Walling to bring the case to a close. Abou...more
A Suspense Filled Mystery, but a bit short.
I enjoyed this novel. Michael Connelly has a unique writing style that is both interesting and satisfying. I thought the number of pages (225) was about 90 pages short which would have improved the development of the characters and plot. The plot is fairly simple and I didn't have a hard time following the clues in each chapter. With more pages the story and the characters would have been flushed out more. Still Mr. Connelly was able to p...more
I enjoyed this novel. Michael Connelly has a unique writing style that is both interesting and satisfying. I thought the number of pages (225) was about 90 pages short which would have improved the development of the characters and plot. The plot is fairly simple and I didn't have a hard time following the clues in each chapter. With more pages the story and the characters would have been flushed out more. Still Mr. Connelly was able to p...more
I'm a fan, so I will keep reading these books. I have to say that I am so not smitten with Rachel Walling. I find her terribly annoying. Also, Harry's involvement with Feds and terrorism--also, frustrating. I like the police procedural. And while some of the other series I read or watch do the cross over to spies and it can work, I don't think it is effective here.
I will say that it is cool that my copy of the book had an additional chapter, and apparently this is now a commonplace for...more
I will say that it is cool that my copy of the book had an additional chapter, and apparently this is now a commonplace for...more
For a Bosch book --heck, for a Connelly book-- this was short and not nearly as involved as usual. Still interesting, and a page-turner, but I felt more outside of things even than normal It revolves around a suspected terroris threat, and is entertaining and twisty enough, but there's not quite enough there to really get your teeth into. Or, at least, I couldn't. Next Connelly will be the Brass Verdict, which is the one I was mostly looking forward to as it's supposed to be a joint venture invo...more
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