Book Review: The Crossing

When I reviewed The Burning Room little over an year ago, I wrote how Hieronymus Harry Bosch was back once again, and how I wished Michael Connelly would retire him from the force and from the series altogether if possible. But with The Crossing, I am really happy to see him back again even if one of my wishes came true. For the latest ex-police procedural featuring ex-cop Bosch and his defense attorney half-brother Mickey Haller is a tense nail-biting ride, one that ends in a climax that's exciting as much as thrilling.

Bosch, now having voluntarily quit LAPD before the department could fire him for the events that transpired in The Burning Room, is looking forward to a new life with his daughter, when he is called on by his half-brother Haller to assist him on one of his cases, a client who is falsely framed for bludgeoning to death a sheriff deputy's wife. Hesitant as he is for fear of what his ex-colleagues might say about his crossing to the other side of law and defending the accused, cross he does, partly because he is bored of sitting idle at home, but mostly because he wants to get to the truth of the matter. What Bosch finally uncovers is a twist befitting the series, and a new profession as a private investigator. Here's wishing him all the best!