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The Overlook (Harry Bosch #13)
by
Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
Near Mulholland Drive, Dr. Stanley Kent is found shot twice in the back of the head. It's the case LAPD detective Harry Bosch has been waiting for, his first since being recruited to the Homicide Special Squad. When he discovers that Kent had access to dangerous radioactive substances, what begins as a routine investigation becomes something darker, more deadly, and fright...more
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Published
May 22nd 2007
by Little, Brown and Company
(first published 2007)
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I'm always hopeful that there's a mainstream, bestselling author out there who you can really get your teeth into, and from reading this Michael Connelly is a pretty good option. If you're interested in police procedural - or like me US cop shows - then you'll know this terrain. I wanted to investigate Connelly after seeing the film of his 'Lincoln Lawyer', but there's far more to the movie than there is to his writing, which shows it goes both ways in terms of movies and books. The style is alm...more
Jun 04, 2007
Brent
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1 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Connelly Fans
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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 devel...more
Jan 16, 2010
Linda J
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2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
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 errands, offscreen...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 errands, offscreen...more
May 08, 2011
Debora
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3 of 5 stars
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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
I'm a big fan of Michael Connelly's novels and do believe I've read all the Harry Bosch thrillers. The phone rings at midnight. Harry is awake. He's waiting. I like way Connelly puts us on the case immediately. Not a lot of messing around. The writing is bare bones, spare, with no unnecessary scenery or dialog. As a reader I get the feeling that Connelly knows the ins and outs of the LAPD. He's got the Police Procedural down. He's the best at that, but what I really love is the writer's characte...more
Time saver tip: if you've read my review of any Harry Bosch book, you've read 'em all. Since I don't reveal plots and reserve my comments to the overall book/author, characterization, style, etc...I just don't feel the need to repeat myself as in most cases series books if any good at all do remain consistent. The star ratings might change, but not my opinion of the series as a whole.
Michael Connelly is a well know and very popular author in the mystery/detective and police procedural genres. E...more
Michael Connelly is a well know and very popular author in the mystery/detective and police procedural genres. E...more
Harry Bosch has never failed me since first discovering him after the 1994 Northridge Earthquake in The Last Coyote. The Overlook shows me that Michael Connelly’s ability to have Bosch grow and develop as a long term mystery character is unsurpassed. Bosch can be hard edged and hard to take with his combativeness, but he follows his gut and doesn’t back down and when he needs to relax he puts on some jazz.
Connelly is well able to adapt to the times in The Last Coyote Harry’s house is damaged and...more
Connelly is well able to adapt to the times in The Last Coyote Harry’s house is damaged and...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.
The introduction to this book was...more
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 introduction to this book was...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 FBI look not-so-good.
One...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 FBI look not-so-good.
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Aug 24, 2011
Checkman
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3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Harry Bosch fans
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 local library was having it's annual boo...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 local library was having it's annual boo...more
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 his fans to go bac...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 his fans to go bac...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, the doctor...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 obvious facto...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 New York Times...more
In this case, the paperback edition I read had plenty of built-in supplementary material. Originally published in serial form in the New York Times...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.
Actually, speaking...more
Actually, speaking...more
Jan 11, 2009
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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 arrives, the FBI,...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 arrives, the FBI,...more
If it's a Harry Bosch novel I want to read it. Actually, I've probably already read it.
3.5 Stars?
For a new writer I'd give this a 4-star, or if I really liked the new writer, maybe even a 5. The writing and plotting is very clean. But for Connelly? I'm sorry, IMHO he was slacking-off in this one. I only read OVERLOOK once, and I'm not going back for a re-read. (view spoiler)
Plot-wise & Action-wise this pup...more
3.5 Stars?
For a new writer I'd give this a 4-star, or if I really liked the new writer, maybe even a 5. The writing and plotting is very clean. But for Connelly? I'm sorry, IMHO he was slacking-off in this one. I only read OVERLOOK once, and I'm not going back for a re-read. (view spoiler)
Plot-wise & Action-wise this pup...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!!
THE OVERLOOK began as a sixteen-part narrative published in The New York Times Magazine, and it’s evident from the start that this is a very different Harry Bosch novel.
Despite the expansions and connective tissue added for its mass market release, THE OVERLOOK reflects its inaugural audience; it’s lean, it’s fast and it lacks much of the subtlety Michael Connelly’s work is famed for. Instead, it reads like an episode of 24, with a real focus on plot rather than rich characterization. But just...more
Despite the expansions and connective tissue added for its mass market release, THE OVERLOOK reflects its inaugural audience; it’s lean, it’s fast and it lacks much of the subtlety Michael Connelly’s work is famed for. Instead, it reads like an episode of 24, with a real focus on plot rather than rich characterization. But just...more
There are times when Harry Bosch just makes me squirm because he can be a real horse’s patoot. In The Overlook, by Michael Connelly, a doctor who works in nuclear medicine is killed, and some cesium goes missing, the FBI gets involved because of the possibility of the cesium being used in a terrorist attack. Never one to work or play well with others, Harry is so focused on solving the homicide that he ignores the very real threat of the possibility of massive deaths due to the release of radioa...more
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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The thirteenth Bosch novel starts just most, if not all all of the others... with a dead body. Many of the similarities end there, though. Originally published as a sixteen-part serial for the NYT Magazine, The Overlook ends up being about a third of the size of your typical Bosch novel. It reads more like an Ed McBain procedural - and that's not a bad thing. Connelly keeps it short, concise, and fast moving with little or no fluff. By the end even Bosch reflects on how much transpired in just 1...more
a short book and not as good as his others in the Bosh Series. This was his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad. Harry was called out to investigate a murder which involved national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered in the trunk of his car. Retracing his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen shortly before the doctor's death. With the cesium in un...more
I love Harry Bosch. Can't help it. This is one character that I'm fully attached to. He makes me furious on occasion, but for the most part, I adore him.
THE OVERLOOK is classic Bosch. Misunderstood, side-lined by the Feds, but still bull-dozing right through a murder investigation turned biological terrorist threat. Or has it? Bosch is the only detective with the insight to catch several clever misdirections by the criminals. Misdirections that, once unraveled, reveal a surprising chain of event...more
THE OVERLOOK is classic Bosch. Misunderstood, side-lined by the Feds, but still bull-dozing right through a murder investigation turned biological terrorist threat. Or has it? Bosch is the only detective with the insight to catch several clever misdirections by the criminals. Misdirections that, once unraveled, reveal a surprising chain of event...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 writing
Michael Connelly books have become the cotton candy I allow myself after a dense history or nonfiction book. The books are entertaining and a fast/easy read. This one did not disappoint.
It's a Harry Bosch novel; he's new to the Homicide Special squad of the LAPD and has a new partner (Ignacio "call me Iggy"). A doctor is shot in the back of the head, and turns out a bunch of cesium is missing. The case takes a national security/terrorism turn and the FBI, including his ex Rachel Walling, gets in...more
It's a Harry Bosch novel; he's new to the Homicide Special squad of the LAPD and has a new partner (Ignacio "call me Iggy"). A doctor is shot in the back of the head, and turns out a bunch of cesium is missing. The case takes a national security/terrorism turn and the FBI, including his ex Rachel Walling, gets in...more
Bosch is called to the murder of Dr. Stanley Kent found on a overlook near Mulholland Drive. He has been shot in the back of the head and now some dangerous radioactive substances are missing. Bosch is soon in conflict with his superiors, Homeland Security and the FBI in the form of his former lover Rachel Walling.
Bosch, our nitty gritty cop has a new partner Iggy who really does not get much 'page time' but is in disagreement from the get go. Bosch follows his own instincts and tracks down the...more
Bosch, our nitty gritty cop has a new partner Iggy who really does not get much 'page time' but is in disagreement from the get go. Bosch follows his own instincts and tracks down the...more
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Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing — a curriculum in which one of his teache...more
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