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by Michael Connelly (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Orion (15 Nov 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752883003
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752883007
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 stars What a let down, 16 Jun 2007
By Peter Symonds "petersym" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Overlook (Hardcover)
Michael Connelly is one of the few authors that I automatically buy in hardcover whenever a new book is first released. Whether I do so again is now debatable. As a story "the Overlook" is O.K. Not great, but acceptable. The real problem is that it isn't a proper novel: at 260 pages of fairly large font text its a pumped up short story, that while highly topical (it refers to the poisoning by Polonium of Alexander Litvenenko in London last year) just doesn't have enough substance to satisfy. It was first published in serial form in the New York times and doesn't it just show! Even the style of writing seems somewhat simpler than normal and Bosch is possibly getting old because "the overlook" could be refering to the clues he missed rather than the crime scene. Lines like "Bosch couldn't possibly understand why the FBI would take cigarrette ash as evidence" just defy belief.

I'll stop now before I do a real hatchet job on this book, but hopefully Connelly will read this and take note: next time you have a good idea for a short story copy Ian Rankin and release a collection of short stories. Don't dissapoint your fans with semi-novels like this.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not Connolly's finest hour, 15 Jan 2008
By Andy Edwards "staxasoul" (Essex UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Overlook (Harry Bosch) (Mass Market Paperback)
Michael, what have you done. OK, the deal to write a serial for a newspaper sounded good, but when you agreed to work it up into a book, it all went wrong, and you have alienated many Bosch addicts, like myself.

This book recycles too many aspects of previous books, and there is a procession of the characters from Harry's past, all intended to add some of legitimacy to this cynical cash-in. Add the fact that it will take you no time to read and I defy anyone, other than new readers, to find anything to recommend in this.

If you are considering buying this and you have yet to experience a Connolly book, can I recommend "The Lincoln Lawyer", "Echo Park" or "The Poet" as far superior to this - or better still start at the beginning of the Harry Bosch series with "The Black Echo", and work from there.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A small piece of Bosch magic, 15 July 2007
By Ray Blake (Hemel Hempstead, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Overlook (Hardcover)
There's less of this book than there ought to be, and it's by far the shortest of the excellent Bosch novels. But actually, there's just enough plot to fill it and to give us the charateristic Bosch investigative brilliance.

But if Bosch really existed, if he had a full filing cabinet full of cases that could be written up to entertain the public, you wouldn't have chosen this one.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A brief but engaging thriller
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2.0 out of 5 stars Don't feel too bad if you `overlook' this sorry effort!
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Published 2 months ago by Mr. D. J. Sutton

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor body of work from a great author - very disappointing
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1.0 out of 5 stars Oh Dear!
I suppose this book could be made into a one-hour TV special but it's not an absorbing read at all. I am surprised Connelly has tarnished Harry B's image in this way. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Half of 24
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3.0 out of 5 stars Bosch By Numbers
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not What We've Come to Expect
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