Michael Connelly never fails, and rarely falls short of excellence. I got sucked into the Bosch/Haller universe around a decade ago and in that time have read - and thoroughly enjoyed - all the books in the series, so I am not qualified to judge how his works as a stand-alone. But for an established fan, it is the usual fast paced, well written courtroom drama. For me connelly is at his best when he layers in political and cultural trends, which this book doesn’t, but it’s still a great read

Bosch and Haller are now working together to free a woman convicted of the murder of her ex husband. Corruption and a poor defence lawyer have put Lucinda Sanz in prison. Can they prove she didn’t do it? A page turner of a novel

Resurrection Walk is a book that fans of Michael Connelly will love. It has everything you want in a book where Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller work together. The working together element of this story is not something Harry is particularly comfortable with for a couple of reasons. He isn’t really comfortable being this closely associated with a defence attorney, even if that attorney is his half-brother. And since an element of his work for Haller is driving him around in his eponymous Lincoln, neither is he willing to behave like Haller’s chauffeur.

So he insists on making Haller sit upfront with him and he gets very grumpy if Haller forgets. That’s not the only reason he’s grumpy though. He’s finally conceded to have treatment for his cancer and Haller has got him into an experimental treatment programme. Harry’s job with Haller gives him the medical insurance he needs to see his treatment through. But like all such treatments it is tiring and it comes with its own side effects that take both a physical and a mental toll.

On the upside, the work that he is doing for Haller is strictly on the side of the angels. As a famous attorney, Haller is besieged with convicts proclaiming their innocence and asking him to take up their cases. Bosch’s job for Haller is to do an initial sift of this correspondence to see if any of it looks like it might have merit.

Lucinda Sanz was convicted 5 years ago of the murder of her ex-husband and Sherriff’s deputy , Robert. On the recommendation of her lawyer, Frank Silver,she pled ‘no contest’ in a deal that gave her a lot less than the maximum jail time she’d have got had she pled not guilty.

But she always maintained her innocence and now, knowing that her teenage son is living in prime gang territory, she is desperate to get out of prison to stop him from falling under their protection. Bosch thinks her case sounds plausible and doing a dive into it, he thinks she may well be innocent.

Haller agrees and he prepares to take Lucinda’s case to Federal Court where he faces fierce opposition from Assistant Attorney General Hayden Morris and another attorney who raises Haller’s temperature.

It’s a fierce and furious court battle, full of tension that ranks as one of Connelly’s best. Bosch meanwhile is doing what he does best and is aiming to find the real killer.

The joy of this book is in the characters; their relationships and in the way that intimations of mortality percolate throughout the book. Time is running out for Harry and it is affecting him in a range of different ways. Meanwhile, the daughters of Haller and Bosch are in the wings, waiting for their moment.

Reading Resurrection Walk is an immersive, fantastic experience. The plot is smooth and expertly delivered with all the clever moments you’d expect, only even more tense and impactful than I expected. This is a strangely emotional book; there are moments of real vulnerability from Harry and it’s hard to read because he’s always been such a loadstone for certainty.

Resurrection Walk is a clever title for a brilliant book. Everything you’ve come to expect from Michael Connelly is here; a superb plot, fast pacing, a dual narrative that switches effortlessly between Haller and Bosch and characters that make you feel their vulnerabilities.

Verdict: Resurrection Walk is Connelly at his best. You really don’t want to miss this one. A top read.

Following a case where Michael Haller was fortunate to free an innocent man, his office is besieged with requests from other convicted felons who want the same treatment. Mick employs his half-brother Harry Bosch to check through all possible requests and Harry is particularly interested by a letter from a lady named Lucinda Sanz who is imprisoned for killing her ex-husband, who was a sheriff’s deputy. The details of the case seem rather peculiar and Michael when he discusses it with Harry is equally interested in the case.

The story is mostly told from the point of view of Mickie Haller although when Harry is involved the narrative shifts to the third person in describing his research actions.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book as I have always when reading anything by Michael Connelly and I strongly recommend his work to other readers.

I thank Netgalley.co.uk and Orion Publishing for the opportunity to read an advance preview copy of the book Resurrection walk.

This is my first Mickey Haller book but I love the Bosch series. This book did not disappoint. It was everything I wanted from a Michael Connelly book from intrigue and mystery to great investigative and courtroom drama. A fantastic read that I would definitely recommend.

I wholeheartedly thank the publisher and net galley for the ARC in return for a fair review. I was a early follower of Michael Connelly and have read every one of his books to date. I loved this one and it is probably my favorite Mickey Haller to date. Lots of Harry Bosch in the mix, wonderful courtroom drama with frequent twists and turns, new types of expert evidence, what more could one want? Mickey's Innocence Project is obviously going to be the base for more stories, the more the merrier I will be. Very highly recommended.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Orion Publishing Group for an advance copy of Resurrection Walk, the seventh novel to feature The Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller, set in Los Angeles.

After freeing an innocent man Haller has been inundated with requests from convicted felons for help in freeing them. He employs his half brother, Harry Bosch to sort through them and find a worthy case, which he does when he sees a letter from Lucinda Sanz, imprisoned for killing her ex-husband, a sheriff’s deputy. Something doesn’t add up and they are ready to take on the government to get Lucinda her resurrection walk.

I thoroughly enjoyed Resurrection Walk and it had me so glued to the pages that I read it in one sitting. It’s not so often that I can say that, but this is a mesmerising read with so many twists and turns I never knew what would come next.

The narrative is mostly told from Mickey’s first person point of view with a switch to Harry’s actions in the third person when required, usually when he’s making another discovery. Much of the novel takes place in the courtroom and I would like to say that it is a resounding success for Mickey. In some ways it is, but the setbacks, and there are several, have more impact, because by that time the reader is so invested in Lucinda’s fate they feel like personal body blows. They also reinforce how difficult it is to overturn a verdict.

The plot is great. Fighting to set an innocent person free gives Mickey a feel good rush and allows Harry to set aside his scruples about working for the defence. They work well together with Harry’s experience and fine eye for detail spotting the discrepancies that give Mickey something to work with. I’m not going to issue spoilers and will only say that I am in awe of how the author built an extremely credible narrative of something completely different to a woman killing her ex-husband. Wow.

Resurrection Walk is a good read that I have no hesitation in recommending.

Well, once again, Michael Connelly has gone and written another fantastic book, this time it´s both Mickey Haller and Bosch, working together to free an apparent wrongly convicted woman.

Great storyline, great writing. How this man keeps writing better and better for Bosch and Haller is a mystery, but I seriously hope he keeps doing it for many years to come.

Highly recommend.

My thanks to NetGalley and Orion Publishing Group for giving me the opportunity to read an advanced digital copy in return for an honest review.

It was extremely easy to rate this as a five star read! Harry Bosch books are my favourite long running series and in this one we see him come together with the Lincoln Lawyer, Micky Haller. In fact he is working for Micky and I loved the moral dilemma of working for the defense after so many years of being on the prosecution team.

Michael Connelly has somehow seamlessly brought together his two main characters and has woven a first story in his usual style with plenty of suspense. I enjoyed all aspects of this novel. Bosch making Haller sit in the front of the car made me laugh. The hospital treatments made me sad. The reference to the usual cast of characters, Cisco, Ballard and others is familiar and expected. I will continue to read and enjoy this series for as long as the author continues to write it. But for now, I will make do with Bosch Legacy on the television!

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher Orion for an early copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

It's been a while since I read any of the Harry Bosch novels - I enjoyed them years ago when they started and then somehow got out of the habit. Resurrection Walk is the 38th novel by Michael Connelly and I have to admit I was a little apprehensive, finding it hard to believe that any author can keep up the quality for that long. I'm so happy to be proved wrong.

The novel centres around Mickey Haller, otherwise known as the Lincoln Lawyer, working now with his half brother Harry Bosch as his investigator. Bosch, retired from the LAPD, has no desire to work as a defence lawyer but needs the medical insurance working with Haller provides and is happy to go through the letters that Haller receives from convicted people proclaiming their innocence and to investigate them to see if there are doubts about their guilt. One such letter is from a woman convicted of murdering her cop husband and the book follows her case as they investigate and try to get the conviction overturned.

The plot is excellent and it's a good mix of investigation and courtroom drama. The characters are now so well developed it was easy to slip back into their world and their actions are all natural and believable, as is the dialogue.

Connelly is very obviously still at the top of his game, it's a fantastic read and the best part is I can now go back and read all the ones I missed.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an advance copy in return for an honest review.

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Once again, Michael Connelly writes a tense legal thriller, featuring defence lawyer, Mickey Haller, and his investigator half brother, retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch, with a small appearance from Ballard too. Haller wants to experience the euphoria of seeing the 'resurrection walk' again, he is the man who takes on long shot cases, and was responsible for Jorge Ochoa, an innocent man who had served 14 years, walking free from prison into the arms of his family. Swamped by letters wanting his services, convicted people claiming to be innocent too, Haller has Bosch go through them, to assess the most promising. Bosch whittles them down to 2, Dale Coldwell does not pan out, but Lucinda 'Cindi' Sanz, at Chino, is the one they choose to take on.

Cindi apparently shot dead her ex-husband, Roberto, a deputy sheriff , but there is much that does not add up. Her no good, opportunistic lawyer, Frank Silver, pushed her to accept a deal that would have her serve 11 years in prison, despite her consistent claims of innocence throughout. Cindi is desperate to be free so that she can protect her 14 year old son, Eric, from drug gangs. Haller and Bosch are to discover nothing is as it appears, and there are forces intent on making sure the truth never comes out, as both have their homes broken into to try and to intimidate them. There are taut, gripping and tense courtroom scenes before a judge in which obstacle after obstacle must be overcome in a dangerous case which involves the FBI, geofencing, and the use of AI.

Bosch is far from comfortable to be on the defence side but he believes in Cindi, and he has cancer, Haller has managed to get him on a clinical trial, but there are side effects that result in poorer health outcomes. Nevertheless, he and Haller work remarkably well together, as they begin to zero in on the truth of what really happened to Roberto Sanz. Connelly is a skilful and experienced crime writer with his trademark attention to procedural and legal details, his plotting is impeccable, and he knows exactly how to raise the levels of suspense and tension in the courtroom. This is a brilliant addition to the Haller and Bosch series, fans will likely love it, as indeed will new readers who are encountering them for the first time. Highly recommended. Many thanks to the publisher for an ARC.

How does he do it? How after 37 previous books does Michael Connelly manage to stay so fresh and contemporary?

Every year like clockwork he produces a new Bosch/Haller/Ballard book and the quality rarely dips.

In fact this book - his 38th - is up there with his best.

Breathlessly exciting with twists and turns throughout the action is constant culminating in a tense and brutal courtroom battle as Haller fights to win an appeal for Habeas Corpus.

I love that Harry Bosch is aging in real time but his skills are undiminished despite his increasing physical frailty.

The book is bang up to date with the potential use of AI to be dealt with by the judge in a key passage during the hearing.

It is wonderful to discover new authors but also so comforting when a tried and tested old friend in Michael Connelly can still produce a book of this calibre.

The best legal thriller I have read this year.

It's been a couple of books since I read Michael Connelly so I was a little bit behind on Bosch and Haller and what had been going on in their solo and collaborative lives but this brought me straight back in and was a two read sitting I would have done in one if I could have found the time.
Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - with the help of ex-detective Harry Bosch look to help a woman imprisoned five years ago for the murder of her ex-husband, a questionable sheriff's deputy she accepted a no contest deal to under the guidance of a less-than competent lawyer.
There weren't the huge 'fact' swings in this one that are typical of court based novels in this ones: no seemingly insurmountable of surprise uncoverings that we might come to expect. But for me that was no bad thing: it allowed the individual and joined stories of the ex-detective and the lawyer breathe that bit more.
The prosecution is suitably smarmy, the judge hard but generally fair, and the case as engaging as Connelly's usual plots.
All in all it was a welcome return to the author's work: for me: and I was so happy to see it was as well written and authoritative as ever.
With the Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix and Bosch on Amazon Prime (at least in the UK), it might be that we never get to see the Connelly universe on screen, but I'm looking forward to the next one in print already!

Haller and Bosch return in an absolute gem of a story about the wife of a cop convicted of shooting him dead five years previously.

After pleading no contest to the lesser charge of manslaughter, due to really poor and lazy advice from her lawyer, after five years incarcerated, her letter pleading her innocence lands on the desk of Harry Bosch to consider as a case for Haller, the Lincoln lawyer.

After a big of digging, there are serious doubts about the conviction. Was her husband a bent police man, part of an internal police “gang”? Were the FBI involved? Was the wife framed for the killing?

Connelly is a master story teller and Resurrection Walk is one of the best books I’ve read by him. I mean it was just an effortless read such was the structure, pacing, intrigue and overall crafting of the story.

Largely a court room case, this had me on the edge of my seat throughout. It just reminded me why I love reading a good story. I was sorry when it was over and I didn’t notice the time(or the pages) passing.

An easy 5 stars. Don’t miss this one.

Thanks to the publisher for the ARC through Netgalley.

Still riding on a high from getting a client freed from prison, Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is looking for another case that could result in a Resurrection Walk - and asks his investigator Harry Bosch to find one. When he does find a case - one that was seemingly rushed through - the case seems like a big ask, but the lengths that Mickey will go to don't always sit well with harry and could tear them apart.

This is another fantastic book, and one I was very eager to read - in fact, I was so engrossed I read it in less than a day! An easy 5*.

I found this book just simply outstanding, mind you I believe Michael Connelly is one of our best authors this decade, he is a superbly talented author who delivers great reads book after book and Resurrection Walk is one of his best, I just really enjoyed it. Excellent character development, brilliant story line, fast paced, lots of excellent scenes, excellent courtroom action, this book has it all from a master storyteller. Don’t hesitate, just get it and expect it to be wonderful.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Orion Publishing and Michael Connelly for my ARC of ‘Resurrection Walk’ in return for an honest review.

Having read all of this author’s novels I was delighted to receive this ARC and, as usual, it was a brilliant read. Harry Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer working together added that extra spark to what was a brilliant storyline full of surprises, twists and turns.

Michael Connelly has the ability to move his stars forward without losing any of their characteristics.

Brilliant, highly recommended

Haller and Bosch ride again!

Micky has set up an Innocence Project and Harry is sifting the cases for him. He finds a case of a Latina who was been in prison for five years for shooting her LA deputy ex husband.

Micky gets on his white charger and takes the case to Federal Court with all his usual tricks and guile but the whole system is against his finding the truth.

Vintage Michael Connolly, he never fails to deliver!

I would like to thank Netgalley and Orion Publishing for the chance to read and review this book.

Fantastic! Five stars from me! When celebrity lawyer Haller gets an innocent man freed from prison he's inundated with request from other prisoners claiming innocence and asking him to take on their case. I raced through this pacy thriller in two days and it was a wild ride. I had no idea where the author was taking me, but I knew I wanted to follow…..⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

As Benjamin Franklin famously said 'nothing is certain, except death, taxes and the fact that a new Michael Connelly novel is bound to be a 5 star read'. Okay, I may have taken a little bit of artistic licence with that quote but I'm sure that's what he would have said if he were alive today.

When I saw this on Netgalley I couldn't hit the request button quick enough. Harry Bosch? Tick. Mickey Haller? Tick. Joining forces to right some historical wrongs. Tick, tick, tick.....you get the picture.

Here we start off with Haller outside prison having successfully argued for the release of a prisoner. Celebrity (and a large compensation payout) awaits and Haller assigns Bosch to try and find the next 'needle'. Who amongst the thousands of ensuing letters which Haller now receives may actually be innocent.

Bosch finds Cindi, a woman who pled 'no contest' to the shooting of her husband who just happens to be a police officer and has spent the last 5 years in prison. She now sees her son going down the wrong path and yearns for freedom claiming she only pled on legal advice and the likelihood of being found guilty at trial.

Looking into the case Bosch and Haller uncover a number of inconsistencies in the case and seek to highlight this miscarriage of justice.

It is interesting to see Bosch continue. I thought that his last novel could potentially be his last however I really enjoy seeing him back. What I love about Connelly is that Bosch's character is progressing and Connelly can really make the reader feel this. Unlike the Reacher series where he is still the same guy book after book, Bosch's advancing age and ill health are laid out and we can see the changes this has on Bosch's confidence and abilities, he is no longer the guy who can boss the streets, his vulnerability is laid bare and we see our hero really struggle to get by. This is surely near the end for a character we have loved for so long but hopefully there is one more novel left.

Massive thanks to Netgalley and Orion for an ARC in exchange for an honest review