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Book #121 of 2023:

Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #7)

Author Michael Connelly’s latest novel delivers another solid installment of courtroom drama that never quite twists in an unexpected direction or otherwise kicks into any higher gear. The plot: attorney Mickey Haller is contacted by a woman serving time in prison for killing her husband, who protests that she’s innocent and wants him to represent her in her appeal. And then he does, with the help of his half-brother Harry Bosch as the lead case investigator. It’s all pretty straightforward, without even any real mystery over who the true culprit must have been, and overall seems like a weaker retread of when the two protagonists first teamed up to work together back in 2015’s The Crossing (when Harry was a lot more conflicted about assisting the defense after decades as a homicide detective for the police).

Connelly is a competent writer who rarely disappoints and occasionally manages to stand out as exceptional within his law-and-order thriller genre. This new title isn’t one of his best, and the ending feels particularly abrupt, with the resolution to a few open matters suggested but ultimately unconfirmed. Still, the book’s presentation of all the procedural beats of its central trial is good enough to get a passing grade out of me. An easy three-out-of-five stars.

[Content warning for gun violence.]

★★★☆☆

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