Mickey Haller, hero of Connelly’s The Lincoln Lawyer, returns a third time
to the Los Angeles county courthouse, but with a twist—this time he’s working
the other side of the bench, prosecuting Jason Jessup, a man who has spent 24
years in prison for killing a child before DNA evidence got his sentence
reversed. The District Attorney wants to
retry him, but doesn’t want his office tainted by failure if the reversal is
upheld. He offers Haller a proposition:
convict Jessup and your ex-wife, currently prosecuting criminals in the Valley,
far from LA, gets out of exile and returns downtown. Haller, in turn, agrees, as long as his
half-brother, Harry Bosch, can be the chief investigator. Both of them believe Jessup is guilty. And since both have daughters about the age
of Jessup’s victim, they both have an emotional stake in putting him back
behind bars.
So begins another taught courtroom
drama from a writer who matches Scott Turow in turning legal cases into page
turners.
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