The Overlook by Michael Connelly

Published in 2007. 225 pages.


I have been a fan of Michael Connelly and his character Harry Bosch since I picked up a paperback copy of The Concrete Blonde at a check-out stand. That was Connelly's third novel, and I went back to the previous two and then have read every novel he has written since, many of them featuring Harry Bosch. (I haven't yet read Connelly's non-fiction collection, Crime Beat, published in 2006).

I thoroughly enjoyed this latest Bosch novel, Connelly's eighteenth work of fiction. Originally published, in a shorter version, as a sixteen-part serial in the New York Times Magazine, The Overlook is a well-written, intelligent detective story. I heartily recommend it!

You can find out more about the novel, including discussion questions and a trivia quiz, at Connelly's website here.

By the way, this is the third of my Beach Blanket Bonanza fun summer reads.

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