After being underwhelmed by Connelly’s Lincoln Lawyer novel The Gods of Guilt, in my opinion he remains the master of this crime genre with The Brass Verdict. This book was reviewed in more detail in the blog on 9/15/11 by Midwest Dave. It’s an excellent review so please refer to that. This is the story in which defense attorney Mickey Haller meets his half-brother, LA police detective Harry Bosch. Bosch is apparently aware of them having a father in common, but Haller does not figure that out until the end of the book. Although there is constant friction between these two figures that have historically been on opposite sides of criminal trials, Bosch and Haller begrudgingly learn to work together.
As the novel begins, Haller has been out of lawyerly action for more than a year while coming to terms with his pain drug addiction, and then ready to get back into action although still without any clients of his own, his colleague Jerry Vincent is murdered and Vincent’s entire caseload is given to Haller, including the very big case of Walter Elliott, an important movie executive in LA. Elliott who had been accused of murdering his wife and her lover in Elliot's Malibu beach house. The pace of the plot is perfect, and I could hardly turn off the audio version. Great characters, great plot with unexpected twists, good writing – Connelly at his best.
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