The Overlook (Harry Bosch #13), by Michael Connelly
The Overlook by Michael Connelly My rating: 3 of 5 stars Ugh… I didn’t expect this. A bad Bosch novel! Well, bad is, of course, relatively speaking: “ The Overlook ”, instalment 13 of the ongoing Bosch series by Michael Connelly , isn’t outright bad. It’s just surprisingly and significantly mediocre. For the first time in his new job in Robbery Homicide Division (RHD) at Homicide Special as a senior investigator looking into cases that might require long-term engagement, Harry is called out to the eponymous overlook where a murder took place. Soon it becomes clear the case might not solely be a murder, but also a case of terrorism, and so the FBI is called in. Rachel Walling is first among them. If you remember the previous novel’s outcome with respect to Harry and Rachel, you might wonder at the tension between them. There’s a bit of it, but not much. “Not much” is, in fact, something that can be said about many aspects of this novel as well as the novel in its entirety. Harry is...