The Crossing

De: Michael Connelly

Narrado por: Titus Welliver

In this "tense" thriller and #1 New York Times bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch teams up with Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller to track down a killer who just might find them first (Wall Street Journal).

Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. The murder rap against his client seems ironclad, but Mickey is sure it's a setup. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch takes the case. With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucia Soto, he turns the investigation inside the police department. But as Bosch gets closer to discovering the truth, he makes himself a target.

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To the dark side

Harry Bosch is retired from the LAPD and he is bored. He goes to work as a private investigator for his brother defense attorney Mickey Haller (the Lincoln Lawyer). The case is about a reformed gangbanger named Da’Quan Forster. He is accused of murdering Lexi Parks a well known city official. Bosch feels like a traitor working against the police, even though he is convinced that Forster is innocent.

The case is a classic whodunit, the complicated mystery pivots on one small clue. Connelly is a master story teller; the book is fast paced and loaded with suspense. The story has an Agatha Christy feel to it. The plot is complicated and twisting and builds the suspense until the reader can hardly stand it. I now know what crossing means in law enforcement jargon, but I will let you have the fun of discovery.

It is great to have both Bosch and Haller on the case. It was fun to follow Bosch on his investigation then watch Haller turn it into courtroom drama. Titus Welliver did okay as the narrator but I wish they would have kept one of the prior long term narrators I was use to listening too.

Love Bosch, Love Connelly

I admit it, I am a Harry Bosch & Mickey Haller fan and no matter what Connelly writes I enjoy it! I know that he has a formula for each story and it's not very different but somehow he engages me! This is one series that I just keep listening to and don't feel like its gotten stale. So, if you are a Bosch/Haller fan I think you will be happy with this book! Good narration as well.

Well done!

It's fun to have Harry Bosch and his half-brother Mickey Haller in the same novel. It underscores Harry's trepidation as he helps the defense investigate the case of an accused murderer whom his brother believes has been set up. He sets out to find the truth and Connelly does a brilliant job of letting the reader follow along and reach the conclusions along with Bosch. I've been reading a string of books where the authors were simply lazy with their plots and this was a pleasant break from that. Very entertaining. Would definitely recommend.

With Neon Promises

Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch/Mickey Haller books are modern Los Angeles noir. Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch is a flawed, heroic former cop forced into retirement, doing his best in a broken world. His half brother, Mickey Haller is an attorney seemingly on the brink of amorality with an unwavering moral compass that always manages to steer him straight. Bosch and Haller catch very bad guys; right wrongs; and sometimes mete out rough justice, all while fighting corrupt law enforcement, unprincipled prosecutors, and a venal judiciary. Not that everyone is on the take, of course - the suspense is in figuring out who is.

"The Crossing" (2015) is a Bosch book but Haller ("The Lincoln Lawyer" (2005 book, 2011 movie) plays a prominent role. Bosch had been forced into retirement and is fighting hard to maintain his dignity and his identity in a world he might be too old for.

Haller, in the meantime (and as always), is in trouble. It seems a fictional kind of improbable, but Connelly may have based it on a real life scheme. My friend, G- , sent me a news story as I was getting ready to write this review. It turns out that the Florida State Bar just disbarred Robert D. Adams and Adam Robert Filthaut for setting up a 2013 DUI arrest of an opposing attorney in a high profile case. The lawyers' very attractive paralegal ran into the unsuspecting attorney at a steakhouse and joined him for a few rounds - while her bosses called a friendly police sergeant and tipped him off to a possible DUI arrest. "The legal profession, and the public's confidence in both, was simply collateral damage from the [attorneys] point of view . . . The . . . willingness to inflict and indifference to causing such harm is . . . quite 'stunning.' " Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida, WUSF, "Lawyers Disbarred Over 'Shocking' DUI Set-Up" August 26, 2016.

Connelly's single father, Vietnam veteran, jazz loving, former LAPD Detective Bosch is to the early twenty first century what Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe ("The Big Sleep" (1939), etc.) is to the fedora wearing, cigarette smoking, highball drinking 1940's hard-boiled detective. They're the ultimate in fictional sangfroid, the guys that can figure it all out.

Titus Welliver narrates. He's really the perfect choice - he plays Bosch in the Amazon original series (2015 - present).

The title of the review is from a description of a murder scene in the book - a shabby hotel with neon promises of free HBO. Lines like that resonate, don't they?

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