Resurrection Walk

I just finished reading Resurrection Walk, Michael Connelly's latest Lincoln Lawyer novel. It took many weeks on the waiting list at the Denver Public Library to get, but it was worth it. Connelly writes great crime fiction thrillers, and this one is no exception. This time, after freeing an innocent man from jail, Mickey Haller - the Lincoln Lawyer - is inundated with requests for help from prison inmates claiming they are innocent, and he hires Harry Bosch, his half-brother and former LA police detective, to go through these letters and see if any of them might have merit. He finds one, sent by woman who is in jail for murdering her husband, a sheriff's deputy, and believes that the case against her just doesn't add up. And so Haller and Bosch begin an investigation to prove her innocence. Connelly rotates the sections of the book between Haller and Bosch's perspectives, and it works very well. And I am pleased to find that Connelly did not kill off Bosch in this latest story. Connelly ages his characters in real time, and so Harry is now 71 years old, too old to be a police detective. In his last book, Connelly had Harry possibly dying of cancer. But in this book, thanks to the insistence of his daughter Maddie, he has entered an experimental treatment program at UCLA, and the results look good. Why Connelly insists on aging his characters like that, I don't know, but I am very happy we will still get to read about Bosch's future investigations. I strongly suggest you put your name on the waiting list for Resurrection Walk soon. You might even get it before Connelly's next book comes out. Although I doubt it.