The Overlook (Harry Bosch)
by Michael Connelly
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Book Reviews of The Overlook (Harry Bosch)
Book Review: Commuting The Sentence and Paragraph
Summary: 4 Stars
THE OVERLOOK may not be a great book but it is a great book for commuting which is where and how I read it, on my way to and from work. Connelly knows how to tell a good story and, let's face it, the guy can write. Because it is part of a popular series you're bound to find those who liked it better than others or conversely, didn't. Hey, we all have our favorites which is why Baskin & Robbins has more flavors than vanilla.
I'm a Harry Bosch fan so I won't bad mouth the book especially when it is a well written piece of work with a good storyline. And come on! The Title, The Overlook? How fitting for a whodunnit where the evidence is there but overlooked.
Got a plane trip coming or just taking the bus or train to and from work? Then pick up THE OVERLOOK and see if you can figure it out before you get to the final chapters or say, before the fat guy next to you falls asleep on your shoulder.
Book Review: A twelve hour case
Summary: 4 Stars
Harry Bosch is back in Homicide Central and finally gets the call he has been waiting for to go out on a case. A man has been murdered, but things don't seem right to Harry. He has been in the business for a while, and has developed a sense for seeing things that don't add up, or maybe add up a little too well. The case finds him working again with FBI agent Rachel Walling. Harry has a reputation that can be either good or bad depending on your viewpoint.
Harry gets lucky with a little "help" from an unexpected source, and things start connecting the dots. It's a quick case for Harry. He doesn't get any sleep, but he is used to that and drinks a lot of coffee to keep going. Along the way, he is breaking in his new partner, Iggy.
Another reviewer said that this reads like a serial. Well, yeah, it is supposed to be part of a serial. There are many books in the Harry Bosch series.
Book Review: A quick, but satisfying read
Summary: 4 Stars
Originally created as a 16-part serial for the New York Times Magazine, The Overlook is a fast-paced, straight forward, easy-to-read 225-page Harry Bosch novel. The Overlook is a follow up to Echo Park and Bosch is reunited with FBI agent Rachel Walling.
Stanley Kent, a medical physicist, has been murdered execution style and 31 vials of radioactive cesium are missing. The cesium could be used to create a deadly dirty bomb. National security is at risk and the FBI is trying to squeeze the LAPD and Bosch out of the investigation.
The FBI contends that the terrorism threat trumps the murder investigation. Bosch disagrees. He believes murder is the key to the case. He senses a great deal of misdirection going on and he has to prove his point, working outside the normal channels, of course.
This is a quick, but satisfying read.
Book Review: Connelly is going through the motions
Summary: 3 Stars
Connelly's recent novels have suffered increasingly from a sense of their being the pro forma efforts of a writer who has become a brand name and is feeling less and less creatively invested in his work. I was initially drawn to Connelly's novels because they were simply the most literate and intelligent mystery/crime fiction novels I had encountered in many years. The police background felt convincing and well-observed. And at his best, Connelly can write with Chandleresque resonance and construct moments of haunting prose that transcend the genre.
But THE OVERLOOK is a slight effort betraying its serialized roots. Connelly's prose is clean and servicable, but nowhere near some of his earlier efforts. And, for the first time with a Connelly mystery, I guessed the ending early in the novel and I suspect many other mystery readers will as well.
Book Review: Short, but very sweet thriller!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the 13th in Connelly's Harry Bosch Series and the quality has not wavered. This time out past lover Special agent Rachel Walling is back in Harry's life, and Bosch also has to break in a new partner a character by the name of Iggy Ferras. Physicist Stanley Kent has been murdered at a Mulholland Drive lookout. It is a professional hit. Then Walling arrives on the scene to try and take the case from Bosch in the name of national security, sparks fly! Kent worked at a hospital where some radioactive material has been stolen. She won't share and either will Harry! This is a fun fast read, my one complaint is that it is a very short book, and it ended way too fast. What is there though is excellent! A complex look at threats to National security and how we as a nation must deal with them, all wrapped up in a great suspense story!