We pick up Mickey Haller's brand new courtroom boiler, Resurrection Walk, from where the Bosch–Ballard novel Desert Star left off. In the latter, we're made aware of how Renee Ballard is put in charge of a cold-case department and enlists the help of an aging Harry Bosch in solving her cases — including one of his own unsolved homicide cases from decades back. We're made aware of Bosch's decaying health, and of Ballard asking Mickey Haller to help out a suspect wrongfully incarcerated in a case her newly formed unit had just solved.

Resurrection Walk picks up from there. Buoyant about making good on his promise to Ballard, Haller hires the services of Bosch to find him more such cases. He calls it his "resurrection walk" cases — something that goes above and beyond his usual defence lawyer brief. Bosch, on the other hand, while not thrilled about working for the other side, still finds a sense of redemption here. Helping out the innocent has been Bosch's entire spiel for his entire life.

They eventually narrow down through innumerable applications to a woman arrested for having fatally shot her sheriff's department ex-husband. She insists she didn't do it. She insists that her lawyer back then made her sign a no-contest and surrender to the authorities. But she didn't do it.

Bosch senses a subtle truth in her appeal. And together with his half-brother, the two of them start investigating and trying to get to the truth of the matter. From that point onwards we're in Connelly territory, as we follow his two most popular characters slowly edge towards the truth. The master storyteller leaves no stone unturned in giving us another fast-paced potboiler. Getting two for the price of one — that's just the cherry on top.

Smartly divided along the narrative styles Connelly has mastered for each character — Bosch in third person and Haller in first — you cut across both styles effortlessly and find a sharp balance across the entire storytelling. The ending will no doubt have future repercussions in the Haller storyline — something to look out for in the titles to come. Bosch looks to be near the finish line, but there's still space, surely, for a Bosch–Ballard–Haller magnum opus. That would be a fitting end for Harry Bosch — and something we can all look forward to with bated breath.

Resurrection Walk is aces as usual. In other words — totally unputdownable.