Resurrection Walk

The Lincoln Lawyer, Book #7

Harry Bosch Universe, Book #38

By Michael Connelly

ISBN# 9780316563765

Author’s Website: michaelconnelly.com

Brought to you by OBS reviewer Heidi

Review

After getting a client off, who was serving time for a crime he didn’t commit, Mickey has a new lease on life.  He loved the feeling of the resurrection walk and would do just about anything to experience that feeling again. 

“nothing could ever beat the resurrection walk — when the manacles come off and the last metal doors slide open like the gates of heaven, and a man or woman declared innocent walks into the waiting arms of family, resurrected in life and the law.”

Now, Mickey is receiving letters from prisoners all over claiming to be innocent that want Mickey to prove it.  He tasks his half-brother, Harry Bosch, to go through the letters and find the needle in the haystack; a true innocent. 

What Harry finds is Lucinda Sanz.  She was accused of killing her ex-husband, Roberto, a police officer, on her front lawn after a heated argument.  After looking into the case, they discover that Roberto wasn’t the squeaky-clean hero everyone believed him to be.  He was a part of a sheriff’s gang, a gangster with a badge.  And, if Mickey’s hunch is right, Lucinda was set up to take the fall.  She has always maintained she was innocent, but was talked into taking a plea deal by her incompetent lawyer.  She has served five years of her sentence while her mother raises her son.  And, it’s up to Mickey to set her free once and for all.

I always enjoy the Lincoln Lawyer books, and this was no exception.  It doesn’t knock your socks off, but it held my interest and was a quick read.  Although I found this ending to be rather abrupt.

I enjoyed watching the case unfold and seeing just how corrupt the police department was in this novel.  And, seeing how Mickey could uncover it all.  The judge in this case, did make it a bit difficult throwing out the things that proved Lucinda’s innocence the most.  However, Mickey and his team were determined and persevered.

I think we’re really starting to see Mickey evolve as a person and a lawyer.  In the beginning of the series, he didn’t care, or even want to know if his clients were innocent.  He just wanted to get them off of whatever they were accused of and would use any technicality he could to achieve that.  Now, he’s working to free the falsely imprisoned. And, at the end of this novel, it looks like he’s about to make a huge change in his life.  I’m curious to see what he ends up doing next. 

I was curious about a couple of things in this book, though.  One, I couldn’t understand how Bosch had such a problem helping Jennifer clear her teenage nephew’s name, but had no qualms helping free Lucinda when the cases were so similar.

Then there is Maggie.  It seemed like she and Mickey were getting back together at the end of The Law of Innocence.  And then I start reading this book, and she’s pretty much nonexistent until she shows up to help the state in this case.  And, being a bit dirty in the process.  I’m glad to see Mickey call her out on it too.  I just thought it was so odd that there was no explanation as to what just happened between them in the space between these two books though.  I am glad he no longer cares what she thinks of his actions though.

Overall, I enjoyed this book, and I’m just curious to see the next chapter in Mickey’s life.  Hopefully, it’ll be something he can be really proud of but is also entertaining to read.