Resurrection Walk (Lincoln Lawyer Series #7)

by Michael Connelly Narrated by Peter Giles, Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

The Lincoln Lawyer series keeps giving, and No. 7 thrives with the help of the dream team of Connelly characters, Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch. This is a prime-time legal thriller.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly: Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller enlists the help of his half-brother, Harry Bosch, to prove the innocence of a woman convicted of killing her husband.

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence. He enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, to weed through the letters, knowing most claims will be false.

Bosch pulls a needle from the haystack: a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy, but who still maintains her innocence. Bosch reviews the case and sees elements that don't add up, and a sheriff's department intent on bringing quick justice in the killing of one of its own.

Now Haller has an uphill battle in court, a David fighting Goliaths to vindicate his client. The path for both lawyer and investigator is fraught with danger from those who don't want the case reopened and will stop at nothing to keep the Haller-Bosch dream team from finding the truth. Packed with intrigue and courtroom drama, Resurrection Walk shows once again that Michael Connelly is “the most consistently superior living crime fiction author” (South Florida Sun Sentinel).

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"From the streets to the courtroom, Connelly’s 38th novel hits all the right notes for fans of the well-developed characters and intelligent plotlines in the Bosch universe."—Becky Meloan, Washington Post

"Michael Connelly keeps getting better with Resurrection Walk . . . it easily ranks among his best."—Curt Schleier, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"A tightly coiled novel . . . Connelly’s superb plot maintains high suspense until the final page, a hallmark of this author’s reputation."—Oline Cogdill, South Florida Sun Sentinel

"An immensely satisfying book."—Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

"The most richly accomplished of the brothers’ pairings to date—and given Connelly’s high standards, that’s saying a lot."—Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"A stunning combination of police and legal procedural. . . As always, Connelly makes the tedious work of investigation fascinating as he shuttles between Mickey's and Harry’s hard-bitten points of view."—Booklist (starred)

"Another solid series installment from Connelly. This Lincoln Lawyer/Harry Bosch crossover is sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats as Mickey absorbs each legal setback. A brief appearance by Renee Ballard, as well as a few other familiar faces from the Harry Bosch universe, will delight fans."
 
 —Library Journal

NOVEMBER 2023 - AudioFile

Peter Giles masterfully portrays the Lincoln Lawyer, Mickey Haller, a defense attorney whose office is his car. Giles is joined by Titus Welliver, as LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, and Christine Lakin, as Renée Ballard. Haller, having just experienced the exhilaration of overturning an innocent man's conviction, has launched his own innocence project. With Bosch's help, Haller is now pursuing incarcerated Lucinda Sanz's innocence in the murder of her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Various adversaries are determined to thwart their mission. Drama is skillfully played out through the investigation and tense courtroom scenes. Listeners once again experience Bosch's struggles working for the defense and gain insight into Haller's enlightenment. Michael Connelly's enthralling crime/legal thriller presented by three exceptional narrators provides a totally compelling listening experience. E.Q. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

Kirkus Reviews

★ 2023-09-21
Harry Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer team up to exonerate a woman who’s already served five years for killing her ex-husband.

The evidence against Lucinda Sanz was so overwhelming that she followed the advice of Frank Silver, the B-grade attorney who’d elbowed his way onto her defense, and pleaded no contest to manslaughter to avoid a life sentence for shooting Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Roberto Sanz in the back as he stalked out of her yard after their latest argument. But now that her son, Eric, is 13, old enough to get recruited by local gangs, she wants to be out of stir and at his side. So she writes to Mickey Haller, who asks his half-brother for help. After all his years working for the LAPD, Bosch is adamant about not working for a criminal defendant, even though Haller’s already taken him on as an associate so that he can get access to private health insurance and a UCLA medical trial for an experimental cancer treatment. But the habeas corpus hearing Haller’s aiming for isn’t, strictly speaking, a criminal defense proceeding, and even a cursory examination of the forensic evidence raises Bosch’s hackles. Bolstered by Bosch’s discoveries and a state-of-the-art digital reconstruction of the shooting, Haller heads to court to face Assistant Attorney General Hayden Morris, who has a few tricks up his own sleeve. The endlessly resourceful courtroom back-and-forth is furious in its intensity, although Haller eventually upstages Bosch, Morris, and everyone else in sight. What really stands out here, however, is that Connelly never lets you forget, from his title onward, the life-or-death issues behind every move in the game.

The most richly accomplished of the brothers’ pairings to date—and given Connelly’s high standards, that’s saying a lot.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940178417355
Publisher:	Hachette Audio
Publication date:	11/07/2023
Series:	Lincoln Lawyer Series
Edition description:	Unabridged

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