Michael Connelly: I try to make these books as realistic as possible without hindering the drama of each story. The events at the end of Echo Park I think would realistically require a major internal investigation to make sure that Harry acted appropriately. So I would say that Harry’s been waiting out an investigation and chomping at the bit to continue his mission. I don’t want to give away anything from Echo Park but it was pretty clear by the end that Harry would need to be assigned a new partner. In The Overlook he is teamed with a young detective he can mentor. I hope Ignacio Ferras is around for at least a few more books. 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. Another outing for Harry Bosch, shorter than most (even shorter than I expected, as the Kindle version ended at about 88%, the rest of it filled with the first half dozen chapters of Two Kinds Of Truth, which I personally find irritating, but oh well).

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.Throughout the book, there are many genre conventions incorporated in the story. One of those was a red …show more content… Guess what. I liked the story. It was different seeing Harry in a "edge of your seat" thriller. It moved along and kept my interest. Yes once I learned that the story had been originally a serial I could see the obvious "cliffhanger moments". So what? Is it such a bad thing to have a long lived and beloved character in something a little different now and again? I actually enjoyed seeing Harry pull it off in his own unique style and it was refreshing. You know sometimes even in the real world cops find themselves in tense, fast moving situations. So why not a fictional character? Dr. Kent’s discovery of a new “radioactive substance” usage is growing in LA county Hospitals & other hospitals for potential money growth. The novel first appeared in serialised form in The New York Times Magazine, in sixteen installments published from September 17, 2006 to January 21, 2007. [2]

Bosch is] still a brilliant detective, and the only one to solve Connelly's well-constructed puzzle * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH * 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. Eh. This was not my favorite Bosch. After a couple of home-runs with this series, this was definitely a disappointment. About half the length of his usual books, Connelly uses this to just show readers excerpts from his other books. I hit the finish line with this book at 74 percent I think. The remaining was just excerpts. 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.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) . What started as the sort of book that made me wonder if Bosch had run his course for me ended in a good 4 star rating. Yes, I want to shake Harry at times and ask him why the hell he can't just "go along to get along" (sic), but I suppose we should all know by now that's never going to happen. And we (I) should just have faith that he is the one we can depend upon to get the job done. This photo shows where Bosch’s small TV house sits on the side of a hill with it’s grand “Overlook” of LA city - I was surprised how it looks - they did a good job find it.... Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads' database with this name. See this thread for more information. 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.

Bosch concurs and, on arriving at the house, they discover the victim's wife, naked and tied up on a bed. She tells them that two men invaded the house, forced her to strip, then tied her up and took pictures of her. It appears that terrorists may have used the pictures to force Stanley Kent to give them extremely dangerous radioactive material. 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. in the Harry Bosch detective series by Michael Connelly, and not by any means one of the best in the series. Maybe it's the weakest so far for me. It was published in 2007, still in the early years in the manic angry years post-9/11, and the killing seems to involve a dangerous substance that could poison the population, possibly a terrorist plot. The fear of terrorism brings in the FBI and ratchets up the suspense to an almost unbearable point, especially with the twists it takes”

The Overlook

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 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. 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. 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. Question: The Overlook was originally serialized in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. For the publication of the novel you were able to re-write the story without the magazine’s space constraints. How was the experience of revisiting the story?

No one needs to sing Michael Connelly’s praises. The guy is as solid as his lead detective. Connelly plots the story perfectly and brings it home with all the self-confidence and easy storytelling of a master.” As the story opens, Detective Harry Bosch has just been reassigned to the L.A.P.D.'s prestigious Homicide Special Squad. He's sitting up at midnight, waiting for his first call out. When it comes, he's directed to a homicide on an overlook above the city. He arrives to find that a doctor, Stanley Kent, has been murdered execution-style, next to his Porsche, which is has been left with its luggage compartment standing open.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. Harry Bosch, the lead detective on the case, who is the principal protagonist of this and twelve previous Harry Bosch novels. Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing — a curriculum in which one of his teachers was novelist Harry Crews.