The Overlook (Harry Bosch Series)

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Some people get very excited about the propect of a new Harry Bosch book ... But it's not surprising. Fifteen years and umpteen books on, Connelly is still pulling in the crowds ... Thrilling rollercoaster? Take it as read * DAILY SPORT * Connelly’s books are always compellingly suspenseful, but this one runs in overdrive, with little time for Bosch’s usual reflections on the past. …the energy and skill Connelly continues to bring to this series will leave readers eager for Bosch’s next case.” Decimotercera entrega de la serie Harry Bosch, publicada en 2007. Aquí Bosch se emparejará con su nuevo compañero Ignacio Ferras, en un intento por resolver un asesinato aparentemente cometido por la mafia en el llamado “Observatorio” de Mulholland Drive. También aparecerá Rachel Walling, lo que le da un valor añadido al relato. Michael Connelly: I think the story is more complex. I didn’t change the significant aspects of plot and character; the bad guy in the Times version is still the bad guy. But I made the bureaucratic and political obstacles that Harry Bosch faces more complicated. There is also a pretty significant story line added involving a character who was not in the Times version of the story. I also shifted the time that the story takes place. In the Times it took place right before Christmas. Now it takes place right now. This allowed me to make the story more current.

Like police detective Harry Bosch, the star of 13 of his best-selling novels, writer Michael Connelly is a hard-boiled pro. His novels are remarkable for their authentic detailing of police procedures. His new book, The Overlook, originally was created as a 16-part serial for the New York Times Magazine. Connelly has expanded and revised it into its present form as a novel about a body found on an overlook near Mulholland Drive in L.A. Bosch butts heads with the FBI — including onetime lover Rachel Walling — and LAPD brass trying to figure out who killed a scientist. Solving the murder is all in a night’s work for Bosch.”

Bosch examines the victim’s Porsche, left at the lookout with the trunk open, showing strange indentations and he learns the deceased is medical physicist, Stanley Kent, who has access to radio-active isotopes stored at several hospitals in the valley, used in the treatment of cancers. But Over eighty million copies of Connelly’s books have sold worldwide and he has been translated into forty-five foreign languages. He has won the Edgar Award, Anthony Award, Macavity Award, Los Angeles Times Best Mystery/Thriller Award, Shamus Award, Dilys Award, Nero Award, Barry Award, Audie Award, Ridley Award, Maltese Falcon Award (Japan), .38 Caliber Award (France), Grand Prix Award (France), Premio Bancarella Award (Italy), and the Pepe Carvalho award (Spain) . Ignacio "Iggy" Ferras, Bosch's young partner. Iggy wants to play by the book and is seriously disturbed by Bosch's let's-break-the-rules attitude. At one point, he tells Bosch that he cannot work with him and will be requesting a new partner. The last entry in Connelly’s unstoppable Harry Bosch series, 2006’s Echo Park, was perfectly okay. When you’re a trusted brand name and your hero is a straightforward, jazz-loving tough, that can too easily be enough. What a treat, then, to open Bosch’s 13th installment, which was serialized in The New York Times Magazine, and smell fresh blood. Bosch is hunting not just a murderer but also some missing radioactive substances that could paralyze his beloved L.A. Admittedly, it’s an easy, early guess as to who the bad guy is, but Bosch gets into some amusingly tense tussles with the feds as his case climbs up the ranks of national importance.” Throughout the book, there are many genre conventions incorporated in the story. One of those was a red …show more content…

Connelly, once again, has hit a home run. He does it quietly and without any pyrotechnics. He makes it look deceptively easy.” The Overlook has fewer of the contemplative departures in which Bosch considers his history or relationships — the sort of passages that make previous books like long, multidimensional jazz improvisations. This one is an intense riff, and that’s satisfying, too.” I re-read ECHO PARK [2006] (Harry Bosch Novel 12) this past summer, one of my very favorites among the first dozen installments of the book series. I decided to read at least one more in the series before the end of this year and decided upon a re-read of THE OVERLOOK [2007]. Harry Bosch, Ignacio Ferras (new partner) & Rachel Walling (FBI - w/some past romance) assigned. They need to find who was the murderer & why his wife (Alicia Kent) was left behind? At the victim’s house the wife is found naked and trussed up on the bed, obviously distraught, the situation not helped by the arrival of Walling’s partner, Brenner, and Bosch fights to keep some control over the case…and some elements of the wife's story doesn't sit right with him.Show More The Overlook On the news, we hear about someone being murdered daily in which detectives are on the case to find out who committed the crime. Murder cases are always a grueling process with many clues to try and find the one who committed the crime. “The Overlook” by Michael Connelly is an example of that, in which he gives detectives a murder case that leads him and the reader in many different directions, trying to figure out who killed Dr. Kent. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Well Harry keeps looking around the doctor's house. Something isn't right there and I loved this part because, as a reader, you become Harry. You see what he sees and yep, you know things aren't right and had I read 1001 crime mysteries instead of only 1000 I might have seen what Harry didn't. (I didn't.)

Harry Bosch now works in the Robbery-Homicide Division in the Homicide Special unit follow the events of Echo Park. He's got a new partner, Ignacio Ferras, and their first case is the murder of a medical physicist. Because the case also involves the theft of some radioactive materials, the FBI and other alphabet agencies want to control the case that Harry first sees as a homicide. Anyhow, add in the FBI and other government agencies that get all tied up in tangles over who's jurisdiction this is and that, ad infinitum. There's also a terrorism angle and stolen cesium, a radioactive element you just don't want to play with. Add in an old 'flame' of Harry's who IS an FBI agent, and superiors who are always warning Harry not to do this or that while simultaneously telling them to get working, fix this, do your job, find the killer. Blah blah. These are tropes so old and tried and true there must be some truth to them irl. If the animosity that exists between the LAPD and the FBI in the book is a reflection of real life it's a miracle that any crimes ever get solved. In The Overlook, Connelly’s 2007 entry into the Harry Bosch files, the mystery writer takes on a case where Bosch must work with the FBI in a suspected terrorist case. Stanley Kent, the murder victim who has stolen 32 sources of caesium from a Los Angeles hospital in response to demands from unknown parties who have taken his wife hostage. If used in a dirty bomb, tens of thousands of people could die from radiation exposure.

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The Feds, of course, want to take over the case and are, logically, pursuing it as part of a dangerous terrorist plot. The material in question could cause thousands of deaths and that is their priority. While Bosch recognizes the threat, from his perspective this is principally a homicide investigation and he insists on being allowed to pursue it. His rational is, find the killers and you find the material they stole.