MICHAEL CONNELLY’S RESURRECTION WALK

Mickey Haller, aka The Lincoln Lawyer, has hired his half-brother, Harry Bosch, to work with him. He’s asked Bosch to review a number of cases of people convicted of crimes who have written asking for his help. And right from the start, Bosch is conflicted. He asks his friend Rene Ballard to run the cases through the system for him, but forgets that now he has, in her eyes, gone over to the dark side. He’s working for a defense attorney, and freeing those convicted inevitably makes cops look bad. On the other hand, in Connelly’s previous book, which featured Bosch and Ballard, the two of them slid another case over the Haller, in order to get justice the legal system seemed reluctant to provide.

From the list, Bosch latches on to one case; Lucinda Sanz, who took a “nolo”, a no-contest plea on the charges of shooting her ex-husband, a cop. Which of course, from a cop’s perspective is the darkest side of the dark side. But Bosch has seen some anomalies in the case file, little things that don’t add up, and Haller knows Sanz’s original lawyer would have likely pressured her in taking the deal — which didn’t require her to admit guilt.
A few years ago, reviewing Michael Connelly’s Two Kinds Of Truth, which is a combination of a police procedural thriller, as Bosch goes undercover to bust a murderous opioid ring, and a puzzle story, in which Haller defends Bosch against charges he…