Michael Connelly - The Crossing (Harry Bosch #18)

Details
Paperback - As new

Rating
4.3/5 Goodreads

Synopsis
Harry Bosch, newly retired from the LAPD before they could fire him, now finds himself idling in the slow lane, spending his days restoring a classic fifty-one Harley instead of chasing down murder suspects, while his attorney, Mickey Haller, sues the police department for forcing him out. But then Mickey tells Harry about one of his cases: a man accused of a brutal murder, who had no connection to the victim and yet DNA evidence points to his guilt. Although he has nothing solid to support it, Mickey can smell a set-up - and he needs Harry to help him prove it. At first, Harry's reluctant. The prosecution seem to have a cast-iron case, and crossing over to 'the dark side' to work for the defense would damn him forever in the eyes of his former colleagues - if not his own. But as soon as he starts reviewing the case file, Harry's instincts kick in, and with the help of his former LAPD partner Lucia Soto, the investigation soon turns towards the police department itself. Which is when Harry realizes that taking the case could be the most dangerous mistake he's ever made.

"'Connelly is one of the great crime writers, a novelist who creates a fictional world so succinctly, and inhabits it so purposefully, that you are convinced it must be real. His mastery of place and character, his ease with dialogue, his control of plot give his books a subtlety that is irresistible" - Daily Mail