The relationship between Bosch and Haller is tightly drawn and tense as Haller learns to trust Bosch and Bosch’s instincts. Bosch and Haller have to carefully navigate Bosch’s need to find Vincent’s killer, while Haller has to protect his clients’ confidentiality - even though Bosch strongly suspects one of those clients is Vincent’s killer. I like the Bosch character, but I haven‘t followed it closely. Over the years, I’ve read at least half of Connelly’s Bosch series. While he’s preparing for trial, Haller needs to cooperate with Los Angeles Detective Harry Bosch, who is investigating Vincent’s unsolved murder. Cases like this make Monster Energy Drinks an attorney’s best friend. Haller inherits a first degree murder case, and his new client insists the case must be tried in three weeks.
The presiding judge of the Los Angeles Criminal Courts calls him in to take over the caseload of a murdered colleague, Jerry Vincent. In this second-in-the-series, Haller’s taken a sabbatical to sober up after an unfortunate detour into Hillbilly Heroin (oxycontin). I liked “The Lincoln Lawyer” so much that I immediately went onto “The Brass Verdict”, ignoring several other books I had waiting. I really like Los Angeles fiction (Walter Mosley‘s Easy Rawlins series, set in Los Angeles in the fifties and sixties is a favorite), so I thought I would give it a try. I don’t end up in the same courtrooms that the fictional Haller does, but I frequently end up in the same courthouses. Haller is a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles county, my stomping grounds as a civil litigator. Even the most rabid Bosch fan will come away hoping that Connelly gives Mickey Haller another impossible case, as soon as possible.Īudible dangled a tempting “First in a Series” reduced rate book for “The Lincoln Lawyer”, the first in Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller series. Haller is presented with numerous legal, ethical and personal challenges and Connelly deals with them all with great writing and an uncanny ability to tell a story.
But Attorney Mickey Haller makes the reader forget Harry Bosch and get totally absorbed in Haller's legal skills. In Verdict, Connelly presents both Bosch and Haller but the Harry Bosch is a little disappointing since he has few of the characteristics readers have come to expect. He is a brillant but flawed criminal defense attorney and Harry Bosch's half brother although not much is made of this.
Mickey Haller, who appeared earlier in The Lincoln Lawyer is the main character. Harry Bosch though is a minor character in The Brass Verdict. His LAPD dectective character, Harry Bosch, is my favorite in this genre. I am a Michael Connelly fan and have read most of his books.
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