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	• The Overlook (Harry Bosch) Michael Connelly Vision, 2008 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 184 reviews view larger image
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not the usual Connelly

just finished it. of course it is always a good reading..but far from Connelly's best. plot is weak and too short. the extra final chapter is disappointing. my favorite remains "the closer".

Harry Bosch is a relentless bulldog

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 characterization.

When a murder comes in with any sort of political, celebrity or media attachment, a case that is particularly time consuming and threatens to stay active like a hobby, the precinct will take it initially, but it will be soon shuttled over to Homicide Special. This is Harry's first call out since his transfer from Cold Cases to his new outfit, Homicide Special. This one is anything but routine, and contains a threat to National Security and so has attracted the FBI, and who should be the agent but his old flame, Rachel Walling (Echo Park) who tries to take over his case. Is Bosch going to let that happen? What do you think?

"The Overlook" while more compact than other Connelly novels, still has that Harry Bosch, nothing-but-the-truth attitude, that don't-bother-me-with-that-supervision crap, that we love from our guy. Harry Bosch is a relentless bulldog, and even though we are screaming at the page, "No, Harry, play by the rules this time!" Harry will always be Harry. Meet his new partner/mentee Ignacio Ferras who tries in vain to keep the 30-year veteran of the department from recklessly taking them both down. By now, with a dozen Harry Bosch novels under my belt, I realize that my boy is going to pull it off. Somehow.

"The Overlook" has all the direction/misdirection, the red herrings, all the elements needed to keep us guessing. This one is particular good on that count, so when Harry's at the scene and gets that instinctual feeling that he's missing something, you better believe that what he has missed, he will eventually be figured out, and it'll come back later and clear itself up.

A great read. Highly recommended.

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Nothing overly spectacular...

but still a good read. Overall a solid mystery/thriller with a few ending twists that may leave you slightly winded but not quite breathless. A good vacation/lying on the beach read...

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The Overlook is classic Michael Connelly. Featuring Detective Harry Bosch, late of the LAPD's Homicide Special Squad, and his new partner Ignacio (Call me Iggy) Ferras it offers a mystery that contains all the excellent police procedural murder investigation elements that bears Connelly's signature coupled with an in depth look at the nasty little war that goes on between local and Federal government agencies when they are involved in the same case.

It seems that the murder victim in this case is tied to the disappearance of radioactive material suitable for making a dirty bomb, so of course the FBI and Department of Homeland Security come into the picture and proceed to play a nasty little game of hide and seek with a couple of witnesses thereby reeking havoc on Harry's investigation and thwarting him at every turn.

Harry, of course, is not to be deterred in this cat and mouse game and author Connelly succeeds in providing his readers with yet another story that is intricately plotted, filled with clever clues and misdirection and offers a read that is satisfying down to the very last page. 3 1/2 stars for this one

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Overlook

A friend loaned me my first Michael Connelly book & I have been "hooked" ever since....The detective Harry is so much a caring person but with romantic & bureau problems & yet he survives & gets the job done.
His books are hard to put down once you start reading.

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