The Brass Verdict

✍ Scribed by Michael Connelly

• Publisher: Hachette UK
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 207 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Bestseller Connelly delivers one of his most intricate plots to date in his 20th book, a beautifully executed crime thriller. When L.A. lawyer Mickey Haller, last seen in The Lincoln Lawyer (2005), inherits the practice and caseload of a fellow defense attorney, Jerry Vincent, who's been murdered, the high-profile double-homicide case against famed Hollywood producer Walter Elliot, accused of shooting his wife and her alleged lover, takes top priority. As Haller scrambles to build a defense, he butts heads with LAPD Det. Harry Bosch, the stalwart hero of Connelly's long-running series (The Black Echo, etc.), who's working Vincent's murder. When Haller realizes that the Elliot affair is bigger than simply a jealous husband killing his cheating wife, he and Bosch grudgingly agree to work together to solve what could be the biggest case in both their careers. Bosch might have met his match in the wily Haller, and readers will delight in their sparring. 10-city author tour. (Oct.)
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From Bookmarks Magazine

Critics were pleased to see two of Michael Connelly's protagoniststhe relatively new Mickey Haller and world-weary homicide detective Harry Boschcome together for the first time. They agreed that while this union of sorts could have been cliched, it succeeded for the most part by adding a new layerthe evolution of a relationship forged by protagonists of different seriesto Connelly's oeuvre. Haller's presence adds a lighter tone to the story, which balances Bosch's darker, more ruminative outlook. Both play against each other nicely as Connelly writes at once a police procedural and a captivating legal thriller. The Washington Post called The Brass Verdict primarily entertainment, with deeper undertonesjust right for Connelly fans.
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