This was a very satisfying quick read. Although I'm a total crime junkie, I haven't read many (any?) legal thrillers before the Mickey Haller series, and now I'm totally hooked. I love all the little side-stories with lesser clients, as well as the spectacle of the main show piece, and this one kept me speeding allong just as well as The Lincoln Lawyer did. I had assumed the book would be two-sided, half Haller, half Bosch, which wasn't the case. It was kind of odd having Bosch around but not really there, and while the Bosch-centric Nine Dragons is next on my Connelly to-read list, it's tempting just to jump ahead to the Haller-centric The Reversal. But I shall be good and resist.

I think it's really interesting to take the POV of a defence attorney, someone who knows the majority of his clients are guilty, and examine how he sleeps at night and explains himself to his daughter. I missed the presence of Maggie McFierce in this book, so I hope she features more in the next. One thing that was really nice and unexpected was having Jack McEvoy show up in a minor role. It made me want to re-read The Scarecrow, and it's made me really want some sort of Bosch-Haller-Walling-McEvoy centric novel, although goodness only knows what that would look like.

I really need to go back to the beginning with Connelly and start afresh, because it's been so long I've forgotten little details. I wasn't totally sure how the ending to The Brass Verdict was going to go down - it was a bit of an anticlimax with regards to the case itself, but the chat between Harry and Mickey was golden, especially Harry's comment about visiting the hospital at the end of TLL. Love.

Final verdict: not quite as skilful as The Lincoln Lawyer, but I still can't wait to get to The Reversal.