Series: Book 3 in the Mickey Haller series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Bosch; Harry (Fictitious character), Los Angeles (Calif.), Police Procedural, Murder, Police, Mystery & Detective, Murder - Investigation, Police - California - Los Angeles, Legal, General, California, Investigation, Mystery fiction, Los Angeles, Legal stories, Thrillers, Suspense, Fiction, Lang:en
Summary
Starred Review Connelly may be our most versatile
crime writer. His Harry Bosch series has taken the
hard-boiled cop novel to a new level of complexity, both in
its portrayal of the hero’s inner life and in
Connelly’s ability to intertwine landscape and meaning.
His Mickey Haller novels, on the other hand, starring the
maverick lawyer who uses his Lincoln Town Car as an office,
are testaments to the sublime architecture of plot. With the
crime novel now commonly rubbing elbows with literary
fiction, it sometimes seems that pure story has become a
forgotten stepchild. In his Haller novels, Connelly reminds
us how satisfying it can be to follow the path of a
well-constructed plot. So it is here, in the third Haller
novel, which finds the antiestablishment attorney accepting
an unlikely offer: a one-time gig as a prosecutor, retrying a
case in which a killer’s 24-year-old conviction has
been overturned on the basis of DNA. Taking second chair will
be Haller’s ex-wife, the formidable Maggie, with Harry
Bosch (identified in The Brass Verdict, 2008, as
Haller’s half brother) serving as special investigator.
The table is set for a straightforward legal thriller, albeit
one starring three superbly multidimensional characters. And,
yet, Connelly bobs and weaves around all our expectations.
There is suspense, of course, and there are plenty of
surprises, both in the courtroom and outside of it, but this
is a plot that won’t be pigeonholed. Reading this book
is like watching a master craftsman, slowly and carefully,
brick by brick, build something that holds together
exquisitely, form and function in perfect alignment. --Bill
Ott Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to
change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a
brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted
killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence.
Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case
on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator,
LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with
political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now
out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating
the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify
after so many years. With the odds and the evidence against them, Bosch and
Haller must nail a sadistic killer once and for all. If Bosch
is sure of anything, it is that Jason Jessup plans to kill
again.From
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