Connelly is the master of the mystery

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	• The Overlook (Harry Bosch) Michael Connelly Vision, 2008 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 192 reviews view larger image
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Stripped Down

People may complain about the length, but I thought it was refreshing to have a book in this series be more plot-driven than the others. Usually you get this whole Harry Bosch drama, which is in one sense not bad, but in another sense gets a little old 10+ books into the series. So with a hundred less pages to work with than normal, you wind up with a whodunit which moves right along. Not bad.

Overlooking Harry Bosch

The Overlook is vintage Connelly/Bosch. A little shorter than the other books since this was actually a serial for a magazine. None the less it was a very good if quick read. I didn't mind that it was shorter as that allowed for a little less Bosch introspection and the story was not as dark as most Bosch tales.

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Welcome Back

Why so much fuss about the book being 80 pages too short? The last 5 or 6 Bosch books have been marred by overwriting, not to call it "padding." This one was just right. Okay, so it's easy to guess the solution. By now Connelly readers know exactly what we want--a case in which Harry has the entire LAPD breathing down his neck, and a case in which even his partners doubt him, and a case which will pit him against the brilliant, erratic FBI agent Rachel Walling, here meaner than ever, and yet Harry falls for her once again--you can imagine from their interactions that he's just one of those guys who the worse you treat him, the more he likes it.

In THE OVERLOOK you get all these elements plus the fun of Harry breaking in a hew partner, Ignacio, who likes to be called "Iggy" but Harry thinks "Iggy" is too undignified a name for a police. You keep hoping that Harry will unbend just once and call his partner "Iggy." But everytime, Harry lays down the hammer, and each time, it's satisfying. Harry imparts lots of ancient cop wisdom to Ignacio, including the case in which an apparent suicide was proved a murder when detectives on the scene found the left hand palm print of a man above the toilet tank, proving he was right handed. "How'd they know that?" Iggy asks, brows furled. "Stands to reason a man taking a leak will hold his tool with his preferred hand," Harry replies deadpan.

I enjoyed it all the way through. After the wonderful ECHO PARK of last year, THE OVERLOOK shows signs that after a few years of duds, Connelly is back with a vengeance, writing as well as ever. Have you ever thought that Harry must have been the youngest American GI in Vietnam? He must have been eleven by my reckoning, possibly ten. Oh wait, the youngest must have been Joe Pike from the Elvis Cole novels.

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Connelly is the master of the mystery

Although I like his full-length novels better, this shorter book (almost novella) delivers the Hieronymous Bosch that we all know and love.

A Harry Interlude

This felt like exactly what it was: An expanded serial. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it just felt like it should be the first part of a larger set of stories regarding Bosch. Actually by the time I had finished the book, which takes place over twelve hours, I felt more like I was reading an episode of the television show '24' complete with the terrorist angle to seal the deal. For Bosch fans this is fine to pass a couple of hours until the next big case comes along, but like having a sundae and only getting a scoop of ice cream, it left me wanting more. On a side note, and one that's completely fun, Harry leaves his phone number for another character in the book,and you can actually call it and hear his message machine.

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