Book: Ressurection Walk

 Book: Ressurection Walk

Author: Michael Connelly

Pages: 416

This is my 125th read for the year

This is the story of Mickey Haller - an attorney known as the Lincoln Lawyer.  He is well known for taking longshot cases and winning.  His half brother, Harry Bosch, is a retired LAPD officer who helps him find the tough cases to defend.  He finds a woman who has been in prison for 5 years for killing her husband.  She says she is innocent.  Her husband was a sherriff's deputy.  The first lawyer got her what he believed was a good deal and she plead guilty.  Now she wants to prove her innocent.  Mickey agrees to take the case.  But defending someone who is convicted of killing a cop has its own problems.  The Haller-Bosch team are up against someone who will do anything to stop them from finding the truth.

This was an okay novel.  I really didn't like Mickey Haller.  He is a cocky lawyer who enjoyed grandstanding in the court room to the point of obnoxious.  It was overdone.  I have not read any of the other Lincoln Lawyer novels to know if this is typically how he is portrayed.  I did like Bosch.  I enjoyed the story line for the most part, just not the main character.  Writing overall is fine.

Stars: 3