Book #167 of 2025: The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #8) A timely, enjoyable, and yet ultimately anticlimactic legal thriller. The case is almost ripped-from-the-headlines: a high school student murders his ex-girlfriend at the apparent behest of his A.I. chat companion, leading her mother to sue the tech company behind the product. Attorney …
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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 …
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Book #172 of 2022: The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #6) One thing I appreciate about author Michael Connelly’s ongoing Harry Bosch franchise (1992 – present) is that it has always played fairly with the passage of time. With the exception of a few short stories that revisit prior points in the …
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Book #65 of 2022: The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #5) A solid legal thriller like most in its series, but one with some unfortunate pacing issues and a letdown of an ending, in my opinion. Nevertheless, this volume is interesting for showing a bit more serialization than the Harry Bosch-adjacent novels …
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Book #5 of 2022: The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #4) A competent if somewhat straightforward legal procedural, following the trial of a woman accused of murdering one of the bankers foreclosing on her home. Even more so than Harry Bosch investigations or previous Mickey Haller cases, author Michael Connelly gives us the …
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Book #368 of 2021: The Reversal by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #3) I enjoy both Mickey Haller and his half-brother Harry Bosch as protagonists, and a team-up is always fun for combining their respective lawyer and detective perspectives. This particular exercise feels as though it needs some further twist to really elevate the material, however, …
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Book #317 of 2021: The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #2) This sequel is a bit straightforward and anticlimactic, but it remains fun to watch criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller at work, staying narrowly inside the ethical bounds of his profession in general and covering his tracks well when circumstances lead him to …
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Book #280 of 2021: The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #1) I wasn’t quite sure what to expect of Harry Bosch‘s estranged half-brother, but I’m delighted to find that he’s a lawyer in the Jimmy McGill style, barely scraping by as he represents various miscreants — literally operating an office out of the …
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