I rarely buy new books but this one I couldn't wait until discounted price and the line is huge at the library.
I like the Harry Bosch books but love Mickey Haller. He's all the reasons people hate lawyers, always spinning but knows the law inside and out. His dad was a high muckety-muck defense lawyer.
His new character, Renee Ballard, is great too. Since Mickey is Harry Bosch's half-brother and Renee Ballard has worked with Harry off the books in a couple cases, I don't think there will be anymore Harry Bosch books. No reason, since he is an adjacent character in the Renee & Mickey books.
BTW, he explains that innocent is not a legal defense, that it is unprovable. All the law requires is Guilty or Not Guilty. It is why it is almost impossible to get an actual innocent person out of prison, there is no provision for it; you have to prove the actual guilty party did it.
Michael Connelly has a podcast (who doesn't?) called Murder Book. In his Harry Bosch books, it is where detectives put all the records on a murder case in a blue binder and called it the Murder Book or at least they did until everything went digital.
Michael Connelly is opening cold cases from LA that were never solved. He worked the police beat desk at LA Times even after he started writing his Harry Bosch books. Definitely gives his books an aura of authenticity. If you read the Harry Bosch books, read them in order, the timelines make more sense even though they start out pre-tech days. No cell phones or really anything digital.
Highly recommend
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