It's been two years since Mickey Haller was shot during The Lincoln Lawyer and it hasn't been a good two years. Pain killers led to addiction and addiction led to not practicing law for a year now. He thinks he's ready to make a comeback when an old associate, Jerry Vincent, is murdered. To his amazement, he is assigned Vincent's caseload, which includes the high-profile Walter Elliot case. Elliot, the head of Archway Studios, has been accused of murdering his wife and her lover. It is the latest trial-of-the-decade. To complicate matters, Detective Harry Bosch is investigating the murder of Vincent and constantly asks questions that give Haller pause regarding Elliot. Would the person who murdered Vincent now target him? Among his other problems are reporter Jack McAvoy (protagonist of The Poet), his perpetually disappointed ex-wife, his daughter who thinks he always represents the bad guys, and another ex-wife who is his accountant and dating his investigator.
Here is yet another page-turner from Michael Connelly. Haller, who is a defense attorney, is a big shift from the usual prosecutorial view one gets in a Bosch novel; it's really amazing that Connelly can flip the table and write an equally exciting book. It is entertaining to see Bosch from this perspective. He comes across as very gruff and unfriendly when he isn't the point of view character. Really, I thought he was a jerk and Mickey was entirely too deferential. Jack McAvoy had already appeared as a nuisance for Bosch and now needles Haller. Funny.
Outstanding book and highly recommended.
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