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An execution on the overlook above the Mulholland Dam entangles Harry Bosch with FBI Agent Rachel Walling and Homeland Security. In the early hours of the morning, Harry Bosch is called to a crime scene. A physicist has been murdered in LA, and it seems the killer has no fear of publicity, leaving the body on The Mulholland overlook, a site with stunning views over the city. But this is no random killing. Before he died, the victim turned over a quantity of a lethal chemical to his killer - and Harry knows he has more than just a single death to worry about. Alongside the forces of Homeland Security, Harry must solve the murder or face unimaginable consequences... ### From Publishers Weekly *Starred Review.* Reviewers were somewhat abrupt about perennial bestseller Connelly's 13th Harry Bosch novel: a quick read, almost half the length of Connelly's previous novels, said one; a tasty hors d'oeuvre quipped another. How smart and fortunate for listeners that Hachette Audio has turned to veteran Connelly reader Len Cariou for some added weight. Cariou catches all the strength and sadness behind Bosch's minimal dialogue and is also perfect as Harry's LAPD colleagues, female and male. He is especially good at bringing to frightening life the real villains: the federal investigators, headed by a former Bosch lover, FBI agent Rachel Walling. The Feds are trying to take over the case of a body found on an overlook near Mulholland Drive—a doctor who turns out to have had access to radioactive materials stored at hospitals throughout L.A. All praise to Hachette for getting Cariou to help us through it. The production boasts original music by Frank Morgan. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ### From Bookmarks Magazine Michael Connelly originally published *The Overlook *as a serialized novella in the *New York Times Magazine*; the 16 sections contained 3,000 words each. Although expanded to novel form, *The Overlook* weighs in as a good, if slim (and perhaps, as a few critics claim, slight), addition to the Harry Bosch series. For the most part, the novel succeeds in maintaining Connelly's trademark fast-paced action, plot twists, suspense, and spare, humorous writing-all over the course of 12 hours. Some reviewers cited tired characters, dull romance, a bizarre time frame, and plotting missteps, but for followers of Harry Bosch, *The Overlook *is a worthy addition. *Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.*