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(first published 2006)
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In his first case since he left the LAPDs Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a mu…more
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Read in June, 2007
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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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Read in April, 2008
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
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Read in November, 2008
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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Read in May, 2007
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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 aft...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 aft...more
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I am a huge Michael Connelly fan. Not only do I love the Bosch Series but I have also fallen in love with Mickey Haller. I am in the process of reading all of his books in the order that Connelly wrote them so this is an ongoing project for me. I gave this book 4 stars, in the grand scheme of things, this is not "the best" but it is a good story. I ordered this on MP3 audio so I was able to listen to it in spurts and I enjoyed that "chap book" feeling doing that. This wa...more
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Read in January, 2010
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
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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 reviewe
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Read in January, 2010
recommends it for:
Rabid Connelly fans only - newbies stay away.
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
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Read in January, 2010
Although I'm not really an avid cop/mystery fan, I have enjoyed a couple of Connelly's Harry Bosch novels. The writing is straightforward, the action is brisk, and Harry's frequent curmudgeonly face-offs with the detested "feds" are amusing, if predictable.
However, The Overlook, at a meagre 225 pages, reads more like a sketch than a novel. The story's okay, I suppose, but the whole thing reminded me of a rushed bare-bones checklist: Harry: check. Old flame: check. FBI jerk:...more
However, The Overlook, at a meagre 225 pages, reads more like a sketch than a novel. The story's okay, I suppose, but the whole thing reminded me of a rushed bare-bones checklist: Harry: check. Old flame: check. FBI jerk:...more
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Read in September, 2009
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
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Read in January, 2010
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
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Read in October, 2009
I really enjoy novels by Connelly. He is so true to form and allows you to immurse yourself into the story. Reading about the Harry Bosch, I feel like he's a old friend. Each book is a phone call, catching up on the times we've missed. I just can't wait for the phone to ring and hear the next story...
This is a exciting adventure including murder, terrorists and a deadly chemical that normally used to treat cancer, might be part of a threar against the american people.
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This is a exciting adventure including murder, terrorists and a deadly chemical that normally used to treat cancer, might be part of a threar against the american people.
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Read in August, 2009
Harry Bosch is back. He's called in to investigate the execution style murder of a doctor. Since the doctor had access to celsium which is now missing, the murder has national security overtones and Harry's old partner, Rachel Walling, is called in as the representative for Homeland security. They end up on opposite sides for much of the investigation as the security people want to pursue the terrorist concerns first and Bosch just wants to get on with his homicide investigation.
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I always look forward to reading a Harry Bosch novel. This story takes place a few months after Echo Park. Bosch is in a new department, “LAPD Homicide Special Unit” and he has a new partner, Iggy Ferras. Harry is at home awake late at night when the call comes in about the murder. It was almost like he was sitting home waiting for it. A doctor is shot execution style at a Hollywood overlook. This will be his first case with the new division and he tackles it like he always has. Focus ...more
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Read in August, 2008
recommends it for:
everyone who loves detective novels
This current Harry Bosch offering by Michael Connelly is just as exciting as all his other Harry Bosch offerings. Michael is an expert in writing detective novels, as he was a Crime Reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Harry is a Detective for the Hollywood Special Homicide Division and his first case from being transferred from the Cold Case Unit, has him finding a body on the Overlook over Hollywood. With his young partner, Iggy, they, along with the FBI, attempt to track down the murderer of a...more
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Read in June, 2008
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Hard Boiled Novel Readers
This story was originally serialized in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. There is an interesting interview of Connelly at the back of the Mass Market paperback that addresses the differences between the two versions.
I enjoyed this 13th novel in the Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch series. He re-connects with Rachel Walling, the FBI agent, when a murder, he is called on to solve, appears to involve a terrorist threat.
As usual, all Harry wants to do is solve the murder but ...more
I enjoyed this 13th novel in the Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch series. He re-connects with Rachel Walling, the FBI agent, when a murder, he is called on to solve, appears to involve a terrorist threat.
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LAPD detective Harry Bosh has a new job in the Homicide Special division, which handles murders with political, celebrity or media connections, or those called hobby cases, which are difficult to solve and take much time. His first call out involves a doctor killed at an overlook above Mulholland Dam. Bosch and his new partner, Ignacio Ferras, are surprised when the FBI shows up at the crime scene. The dead doctor worked with radioactive materials and the FBI thinks his murder is tied to a terro...more
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Read in July, 2007
THE OVERLOOK (Police Proc-Harry Bosch-LA-Cont) – G+
Connelly, Michael – 13th in series
Little, Brown, 2007, US Hardcover – ISBN:139780316018951
First Sentence: The call came at midnight.
*** LA Detective Harry Bosch has been called out to a murder scene; the first case with his new, young partner and one that reunites him with his former lover, FBI agent Rachel Walling. The case quickly becomes a multi-agency investigation as the victim was a doctor with access to rad...more
Connelly, Michael – 13th in series
Little, Brown, 2007, US Hardcover – ISBN:139780316018951
First Sentence: The call came at midnight.
*** LA Detective Harry Bosch has been called out to a murder scene; the first case with his new, young partner and one that reunites him with his former lover, FBI agent Rachel Walling. The case quickly becomes a multi-agency investigation as the victim was a doctor with access to rad...more
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Read in November, 2007
Like all Michael Connolly's Harry Bosch novels, this is a good read---though not quite as good as The Lincoln Lawyer. Harry Bosch, formerly in LAPD homicide, retired, and returned to homicide tangles with the FBI over a terrorist heist of radioactive material (cesium) and a killing (a doctor). Harry is more interested in finding the murderer (find him you find the cesium) while the FBI and their Homeland Security pals want to justify their existence by containing the terrorist threat. They ar...more
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Read in August, 2009
I saw the various reviews - pro and con - and I have to say that I enjoyed this book. It certainly wasn't rocket science, but I found it to be very entertaining. Harry Bosch is a pretty hard-boiled detective, but I enjoy those types of stories every now and again. Some reviewers thought this was one of Michael Connelly's lesser books, which makes me want to read some of his other works. This worked for me because it was a fast-paced, one weekend book. Nothing wrong with that, when I want to...more
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