The Overlook (Harry Bosch Series)

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A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered on the overlook above the Mulholland Dam. Retracing his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen shortly before the doctor’s death. With the cesium in unknown hands, Harry fears the murder could be part of a terrorist plot to poison a major American city. The Overlook opens as Detective Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch receives a midnight call from his supervisor, Lieutenant Larry Gandle. It seems that a homicide victim has been discovered at an overlook above Mulholland Dam. At the moment, Bosch is a member of Homicide Special, a branch of the Robbery-Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Although the Hollywood Division would normally have handled the crime, Bosch’s unit has been asked to take over the investigation, and Gandle has assigned the case to Bosch and his new partner, Ignacio “Iggy” Ferras.

before Bosch can take charge, he is confronted by FBI Special Agent Rachel Walling of the Tactical Intelligence Unit, an old flame, who is less interested in a homicide than the potential for radioactive caesium to have fallen into the hands of a terrorist group. 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.”One thing i did not like was the ending/resolution, which I thought was crazy, preposterous, forgettable. 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? 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.

But I will say this, I did get one thing right about the solution to all this. Just one thing, though Connelly had to twist that around, too. Alicia Kent, the beautiful wife of the murder victim, who was taken hostage in her home by two intruders. She was used by the intruders to pressure Stanley Kent to steal the caesium from the hospital. 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.) Connelly, once again, has hit a home run. He does it quietly and without any pyrotechnics. He makes it look deceptively easy.”The book is a great mystery and at the same time a big complaint about politics of fear that rules over common sense. And in this book as always the common sense is Harry Bosch. 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. Harry Bosch is a fantastic character and for those who are yet to meet him, this wouldn’t be a terrible place to start. In The Overlook we see him battling for control of a case with the FBI. And, none other than his on off lover Rachel Walling. There’s some great scenes in this book. We as readers love Bosch, but to anyone else who he doesn’t like or who doesn’t like him, he’s an absolute bastard and that only makes me like him even more. Fast, a bit on the shorter side - read it in two days, but couldn't put it down - I think this is one of my favs. in the series. This is by far the shortest of the Bosch books, adapted from a version Connelly wrote in serial fashion in the NT Times Magazine

Throughout we learn that Harry Bosch likes jazz, especially sax, and one of his favorites is Frank Morgan (whom I have also heard live 2-3 times); I am not sure how this went down, but not Frank Morgan is playing sax through this audio version. Cool, though Morgan's vibe is a little mellow for this thriller. Here's "The Nearness of You:" Como última recomendación, creo que para el lector que no lo haya leído en orden, sería importante que antes de leer este volumen leyeran el anterior, “Echo Park”, para no perderse algún detalle importante. Connelly starts off with a detective named Harry Bosch, who receives a call at midnight about a murder case. A man was found dead near the Overlook above the Mulholland dam. Authorities believe that it was an execution style murder because the victim was found face down. The authorities believed that the radioactive materials was a motive for the crime to be committed, but in the end it is a whole different story. Looking through Dr. Kent’s phone the detectives saw a picture of Alicia Kent tied up. Once Walling and Bosch find Alicia Kent hogtied, the ties were taken off leaving her wrists purple. Soon after that, detectives find Alicia Kent’s missing car in front of a suspected terrorist home. Police raid the home and kill the man because he was holding a gun, preparing to shoot the officer. The writing wasn't on par with previous books. I counted so many plot holes I gave up after 10. I think my biggest issue is that it doesn't make sense when you find out the why behind Kent's murder. It's beyond stupid. Why do something that would bring in the cops and the FBI? I think at that point you want to get caught. That's all I am going to say about that. 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.One think I like is the way Connelly confronts the "every Arab is a terrorist" assumption of many post9/1. At the beginning of The Overlook, we discover that Detective Harry Bosch is now in Homicide Special, a part of the prestigious Robbery Homicide Division within the LAPD. Harry had been working open-unsolved cases in the last two books, The Closers and Echo Park. Given his motto, that everybody counts or nobody counts, does it really matter what division Harry is in? Bosch is very negative in this volume, making the point that the FBI and LAPD are more competitive than cooperative. He spends a lot of time (way too much time) griping about the FBI in this one Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival.