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Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller are both rather well-known icons of the thriller world at this point, both operating on the same side of the law, but each one in their own respective domain. Harry Bosch is a detective while Mickey Haller is a defense attorney, the kind whose clients are rarely innocent. The two don't cooperate more than need be, but in The Crossing by Michael Connelly, they are left no choice but to pool their forces to stop an innocent life from being wasted.

A lawyer's approach to justice dictates not only their level of success, but also the kinds of clients they will end up taking on. There are some who see it as their sacred duty to ensure a fair trial is given to all and that rules are followed to the letter so that the law may be applied to all equally and without discrimination. However, there is also the other side of the spectrum... those who see justice as being something malleable that changes shape depending on perspective. Mickey Haller is one such defense attorney, and in The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly he ends up taking a path most interesting.

Mickey Haller has already had a relatively long and tumultuous career at his early age, and with The Gods of Guilt Michael Connelly has extended it even further. Being another entry in the Lincoln Lawyer series, it once again follows Mickey Haller as he takes on a peculiar case. This time though, the involvement is rather personal as the whole thing revolves a former client of his: a prostitute Mickey help put on the straight and narrow.

In The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly we see the return of two beloved characters, mixed together in the same story. On one side, we have Mickey Haller, the infamous Lincoln Lawyer, who after struggling for two years has finally bade it back in the courtroom. What’s more, he has been tasked with defending the suspected killer of a Hollywood Lawyer, a studio executive by the name of Walter Elliott. However, Haller learns through his own channels that not only is Elliott innocent, but that the real killer is still out there and is coming for him next.

As many of you know, Harry Bosch is without a doubt Michael Connelly’s most-prized creation, being a detective who cracked some of the world’s most intricate and complex plots, which makes it that much more interesting when in A Darkness More than Night , Harry finds himself under investigation by formerly-retired FBI agent, Terry McCaleb (who he operated with in Blood Work). Why exactly is Harry Bosch being investigated? According to McCaleb, who is far from being a slouch at his job, Harry is the one who best fits the psychological profile of the murderer, who by the way, already slaughtered a number of victims in a very ritualistic manner.

Twenty years ago, back in 1992, Harry Bosch was assigned to investigate the murder of a young photographer murdered during the L.A. riots . Bosch never managed to solve the crime as it was handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force, where it remained unsolved forever. However, twenty years later Bosch gets his hands on a ballistics report which leads him to believe the young photographer’s death wasn't just collateral damage to the riot.

We've already touched upon some of Michael Connelly’s fantastic novels ( The Drop and The Last Coyote ), and we've already met detective Harry Bosch, Michael’s ever-lasting protagonist. Despite all the troubles which have taken hold of Bosch’s life throughout time, he is back for yet another murderous adventure in The Poet .

Harry Bosch yet again finds his way into a Michael Connelly masterpiece in The Drop . This time around, Harry is faring a little better as he has been accepted back in the LAPD and given three years before he retires, which only lights his hunger for more cases to solve (because what he went through in The Last Coyote was just so much damn fun for him). Finally, he finds something to satisfy his appetite when the DNA of a 29-year-old rapist matches that from a 1989 rape and murder… which would make the man eight years of age at the time… or mean that a mistake has been committed at the lab, which would compromise all of the DNA cases that are currently in court.

While many of us have been in situations where we considered our lives to be sh*t, our plights simply cannot compare to what Harry Bosch has to go through. For starters, his home got ravaged by an earthquake, after which it was condemned, basically leaving him homeless. As if that wasn’t enough, his girlfriend decides to leave him (possibly having something to do with the fact that he is homeless), and he’s hitting the bottle like never before.