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By (author) Connelly, Michael

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Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch together take on a seemingly unwinnable case in Michael Connelly”s blistering bestseller.

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Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch together take on a seemingly unwinnable case in blistering legal thriller from Number One bestseller Michael Connelly.

When defence lawyer Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey”s one of the best American legal brains in the business, and to switch sides likes this would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him, is an intriguing one . . .

Eager for the publicity and drawn to the challenge, Mickey takes the case, with LAPD Detective Harry Bosch on board as his lead investigator. But as a new trial date is set, it starts to look like he”s been set up. Mickey and Harry are going to have to dig deep into the past and find the truth about what really happened to the victim all those years ago in this nail-biting courtroom drama.

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[This] Scott Turow-style court drama, starring both of Connelly”s favourite characters, is as exciting as anything this formidable writer has ever produced

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This is vastly superior stuff, from America”s greatest living crime writer

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This novel is further proof that this writer is on a roll. … Connelly”s background as a police reporter gives his books the powerful verisimilitude that few possess and balancing the police and legal shenanigans makes for wonderfully involving reading

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Connelly masterfully manages to marry an absorbing courtroom drama with a tense and exciting thriller of detection

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The novel has a gripping clarity from the off, and very quickly establishes a gripping momentum. … it”s another expertly handled tale from a born storyteller that blazes into an incendiary denouement

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Connelly writes in a tough, unsentimental way and creates a stunning tale that doesn”t let go until the final page.

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Connelly explodes courtroom fireworks.

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An absolutely fabulous thriller, one of the best I have ever read

Biographical note:
Michael Connelly is the author of thirty-nine previous novels, among them New York Times bestsellers The Waiting, Resurrection Walk, and Desert Star. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty-nine million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of four television series: Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, The Lincoln Lawyer, and the upcoming Ballard. He spends his time in California and Florida.f/MichaelConnellyBooks

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Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch together take on a seemingly unwinnable case in Michael Connelly”s blistering bestseller.