Monday, January 6, 2025

Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly

RESURRECTION WALK (Nov. 2023) by Michael Connelly is a Lincoln Lawyer story featuring Mickey Haller and his half-brother, Harry Bosch, a retired LAPD cop. They have recently combined forces to establish an Innocence Project of sorts, identifying and helping to free wrongly accused individuals. Here, they take the case of Lucinda Sanz, a young mother and former wife of a sheriff’s deputy she was found guilty of murdering. Was it all a frame-up? Bosch, Haller, and his team ultimately believe so and repeatedly run into roadblocks as they try to convince a judge to allow new technological evidence on behalf of their client. RESURRECTION WALK received starred reviews from Booklist (“The Lincoln Lawyer TV series should propel readers to this latest Connelly novel.”) and Kirkus (“Connelly never lets you forget, from his title onward, the life-or-death issues behind every move in the game.”). At one point, Haller reflects, “but nothing could ever beat the resurrection walk--when the manacles come off and the last metal doors slide open like the gates of heaven, and a man or woman declared innocent walks into the waiting arms of family, resurrected in life and the law. There is no better feeling in the world than being with that family and knowing you were the one who made it so.”

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