Tuesday, January 6, 2009
The Overlook

While reading "The Overlook" by Michael Connelly I was hooked and wanted to fight out what was going on. I loved trying to keep up with the twists and turns of the plot. But when all was said and done it felt rushed. You solve a crime in a very unlikely way and it hardly makes sense and then the book is over. Like the author got tired of writing and tried to wrap it all up in a big pretty bow.

Harry Bosch is a character in more than one of Michael Connelly's books, this was obvious to me even without having read any prequels to "The Overlook." But I don't feel like I missed out on his character development too much as his history seems to get thrown in his face a lot.

Repeater, FBI agent Rachel Walling, is also in this book.

Bosch has a new partner, rookie Iggy Ferras, and they get called into a huge case which just explodes into all types of fun in the middle of the night. They are a special team of the LAPD and find themselves getting mixed in with the feds. The sour relationship between the FBI and LAPD is evident through the entire plot. There is indeed a power struggle to say the least.

The story is based around an execution style murder of physicist Stanley Kent on a Mulholland Drive overlook. The FBI gets involved because they feel it could be terrorist related due to the radioactive materials Kent handles on a daily basis.

As the plot unfolds or rather twists and weaves you find out that the FBI are heading in the wrong direction and following misguided notions. Bosch on the other hand begins sniffing out the truth of the matter and due to tensions and doubts he isn't really taken seriously until we're down on the wire and multiple lives are at stake.

I won't tell you what happens, I will tell you I did not expect it. I appreciate that this book was unpredictable for me, that doesn't happen often. For the most part I was very interested in following the crime scenes and picking up on the clues, but I feel things could have come together slower and not thrown into overdrive just to finish the book and get it on the shelves.

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