{"id":1889,"date":"2016-04-27T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2016-04-27T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:00:30","slug":"the-real-pursuit-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=1889","title":{"rendered":"The real pursuit of truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A series has taken a new turn, and Bob Moyer hopes for a course correction.<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer<\/p>\n

THE CROSSING. By Michael Connelly. Little Brown. 388 pages. $28.<\/p>\n

\"thecrossingus\"<\/a>Harry Bosch has been banging around the Los Angeles Police Department for a lot of years.\u00a0 He\u2019s a unique creature, a badge-carrying paean to the private-eye tradition of Raymond Chandler.\u00a0 For years, he made life unbearable for killers \u2014 and his superiors.\u00a0 Now, after years of not following police protocol, practice or politics, he\u2019s a civilian.<\/p>\n

And he doesn\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n

Now (in the latest installment in the series, published late last year) he\u2019s just banging around Los Angeles, not caught up in the traffic he watches wend down through the hills below his house.\u00a0 Killers are still out there, and he can catch them, quote.<\/p>\n

Enter The Lincoln Lawyer<\/em>, Harry\u2019s half-brother, Mickey Haller.<\/p>\n

The opposite of Harry, he doesn\u2019t give a hang if the guy is guilty, he\u2019ll get him off.\u00a0 This time, however, he needs Harry\u2019s help, because he actually has a client he doesn\u2019t think did \u201cit,\u201d that is, murder anyone, in spite of ironclad DNA evidence.\u00a0 He baits the hook, and Harry goes for his line.<\/p>\n

Of course, Harry finds clues that other investigators don\u2019t count as important \u2014 the sound of car doors slamming, a broken wristwatch and other small pieces of a puzzle that won\u2019t go together to prove the guy did it.\u00a0 The one thing Harry can\u2019t find is The Crossing<\/em>, the point where the victim and the supposed murderer met.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Harry becomes a marked man the closer he comes to the real killers.\u00a0 Before long, Harry has a solution, but the way Haller handles it makes him uncomfortable with being on the \u201cdark side,\u201d as he used to call it.<\/p>\n

And he doesn\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t either.\u00a0 Harry and Haller working together doesn\u2019t quite make it: Haller\u2019s a glorified cameo to give Bosch a reason to do his thing, it takes too long to get into the story over Bosch\u2019s backpedalling, and Haller\u2019s bad habits don\u2019t hold up well in the light of Harry\u2019s hard-boiled pursuit of truth.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope Harry can work his way back into the real pursuit of truth through the Police Department \u2014 or a reasonable facsimile thereof.<\/p>\n

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A series has taken a new turn, and Bob Moyer hopes for a course correction. Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer THE CROSSING. By Michael Connelly. Little Brown. 388 pages. $28. Harry Bosch has been banging around the Los Angeles Police Department for a lot of years.\u00a0 He\u2019s a unique creature, a badge-carrying paean to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590,5],"tags":[425,628,627],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-detective-fiction-mysteries","category-mysteries","tag-detective-fiction","tag-harry-bosch","tag-michael-connelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}