Resurrection Walk
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4.6 • 61 Ratings
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Publisher Description
From No. 1 bestselling author Michael Connelly: Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is back, and he's taken on another long-shot case. The chance of winning is one in a million...
Shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction 2024
Defence attorney Mickey Haller has agreed to represent a woman who is in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy, and Haller enlists his half-brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Even after five years in prison, his new client maintains her innocence.
Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn't add up and senses the sheriff's department close ranks as he pursues the truth.
The path to true justice is, for both the lawyer and his investigator, fraught with danger from those who don't want the case reopened. And their opponents will stop at nothing to keep the Haller Bosch dream team from uncovering what the deputy's killing was really about.
'Connelly is the Raymond Chandler of this generation' Associated Press
'Superb crime writing from a master' The Australian
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Michael Connelly, the master of the legal thriller, returns with the seventh instalment in the gripping Mickey Haller series. In Resurrection Walk, the Lincoln Lawyer is on a mission to prove the innocence of Lucinda Sanz, a woman wrongfully convicted of killing her ex-husband, a respected sheriff’s deputy. Connelly’s other leading man—Haller’s half-brother, Harry Bosch—plays a pivotal role in investigating the case, and there’s an entertaining dynamic between the two. It’s a refreshing twist in the series that this time the legal battle is to prove someone’s innocence, rather than their guilt. As the challenges mount and the crucial evidence remains elusive, Connelly’s sharp writing style remains as compelling as ever. Resurrection Walk is a must-read for fans of the series and anyone who appreciates well-crafted, hard-boiled American dramas.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Connelly's paint-by-numbers seventh legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after 2020's The Law of Innocence) again teams the L.A. defense attorney with his half-brother, ex-LAPD officer Harry Bosch, who holds down his own Connelly series. After freeing a man wrongly convicted of murder with Bosch's help, Haller has launched a pro bono "in-house innocence project" to investigate questionable convictions, with Bosch vetting potential clients. Bosch recommends Haller look into the case of Lucinda Sanz, who pled no contest to manslaughter five years earlier for fatally shooting her ex-husband Roberto, an L.A. County sheriff's deputy. Sanz now claims she was innocent and entered the plea to avoid the risk of a life sentence after a trial. As the case never went to a jury, the records are sparse, but the investigative partners find enough question marks—including a key witness who admits that his statements were coerced—to pursue a federal claim that Sanz has been unlawfully imprisoned. Meanwhile, the powers that be, including some shadowy figures in the LAPD, will do everything they can to keep the case closed. Connelly is on autopilot here: the courtroom theatrics are bog standard, and much of the dialogue lands with a thud. This disappoints.
