New Recommended Read
As you will know if you’ve been reading this blog, I munching my way through the more recent Michael Connelly novels. The Lincoln Lawyer and The Brass Verdict are both written through the eyes of Mickey Haller, a defense attorney whose office is in the back of his car. While I enjoyed the actual stories and smooth writing, the thing I found most interesting was seeing how well Connelly could create another character in the same world as Bosch without making him just a carbon copy of his long time protagonist. Writers have a tendency to repeat characters, most times unintentionally. In The Brass Verdict, lawyer Haller, ends up working with detective Bosch, and its a beautiful ‘writerly’ challenge seeing Connelly differentiate the characters.
There are similarities, for sure, but ultimately enough differences to make the story work. Haller isn’t quite as principled as Bosch but is as determined and focussed.
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