Book Review: The Overlook by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch 13)

This novel was published in 2007 and features the LA Detective Harry Bosch and is written by the excellent crime writer Michael Connelly.

Bosch links back with FBI agent Rachel Walling but he also has a new police partner called Iggy Ferras who Bosch has to show the ropes. They are called to investigate the murder of medical physicist Stanley Kent on the Mulholland Drive overlook (a wonderfully evocative place for someone like me from England!). However the FBI turn up and try to scare Harry off the case by claiming that it falls under the heading of national security.

Agent Walling also discovers that there has been thefts of radioactive caesium from the hospital where Kent worked. However she is working with the FBI and she stone walls Harry too. This makes him even more determined to solve the case.

However, there are links to terrorism and dirty bombs that were probably the news at the time in the mid 2000's. Bosch bends the rules a bit and circumnavigates the FBI. However this does not help the career of his young partner Ferras, but Bosch has always been one to solve cases despite the fallout.

A good novel for me and 8/10 for this one.