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Michael Connelly is one of my favorite authors and his fictional Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch is my favorite character in the genre since Ross McDonald's private eye Lew Archer. Bosch made his first appearance in Connelly's 1992 novel "The Black Echo," which won the Edgar Award (presented by the Mystery Writers of America) as the best first novel of the year.
Since then, Connelly has written 12 other Bosch novels, the most recent one being "The Overlook" in 2006.
He has authored other novels, including "Blood Work" (1998) that was made into a movie starring Clint Eastwood. In 2005, he wrote a book called "The Lincoln Lawyer" that introduced an ambulance-chasing lawyer named Mickey Haller, a fascinating character whose office was one of his three Lincoln cars known for their outrageous vanity plates.
Connelly's just released novel, "The Brass Verdict," opens with the muder of a lawyer and Haller somehow inherits all his pending cases. When Haller goes to the lawyer's offices to go through his files, who should he find there but one Harry Bosch, the LAPD detective assigned to investigate the murder.
When I read "The Lincoln Lawyer," I felt that Haller and Bosch were simply the opposite sides of the same coin. It is only natural, then, that Connelly has brought these two together. This is a book I'm anxious to get my hands on.
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