Friday, October 15, 2010

The Reversal

The Reversal
by Michael Connelly
Little, Brown, 2010. 389 pgs. Fiction.

The first "reversal" in Michael Connelly's latest Mickey Haller/Harry Bosch thriller is that Mickey is standing for the prosecution. (What?! The Lincoln Lawyer gone City Hall?) Haller has been asked, in a somewhat far-fetched scenario, to serve as an independent prosecutor in a retrial of Jason Jessup, a man convicted of killing a young girl twenty-four years earlier, who has been freed because of DNA evidence. Jessup is a truly wicked man and the fact that he has been released during the trial on his own recognizance amps up the tension as Connelly moves deftly back and forth between Mickey and ex-wife Maggie preparing for trial and Bosch and the LAPD special surveillance unit following Jessup as he engages in frightening and inexplicable late-night rituals. Just when you think justice is about to be served and it's safe to go back in the water, everything explodes in a wild conflagration of a conclusion. Connelly at his finest, which is mighty fine.

1 comment:

dina said...

I love his books, Connelly is a fine thriller writer, perfect for a long weekend of reading!