Book review: Michael Connelly’s ‘Resurrection Walk’

California-based former newspaper reporter Michael Connelly has unleashed another page turner featuring Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller and his half brother Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch, a former LAPD detective.

“Resurrection Walk” is a reference to what happens when someone who has been wrongly convicted is freed to walk out of prison.

Though Connelly weaves several cases into his narrative the focus is on a young mother who pleaded nolo contendere to shooting to death five years earlier her ex-husband, a former cop, on her front lawn following an argument. Her initial lawyer Frank Silver, pejoratively referred to by Haller and Bosch as Second-Place Silver, had helped persuade Lucinda Sanz to cop a plea rather than stand trial and likely face a longer prison term. After all, though no gun was ever found, a swab of her hands and arms had turned up traces of gun shot residue.

Haller applies his legal skills and Bosh his detective skills over 400 pages in their search for justice that would allow Sanz to rejoin her young son and other family members. While the title of the book may give away its outcome, the fascination is in the intricate uncovering of deeply buried facts and motives.

As in his three dozen other books, Connelly skillfully breaths life into his characters and weaves an intricate plot. I highly recommend “Resurrection Walk.”