It’s getting difficult to keep track of the latest Michael Connelly novel now. At least for the uninitiated. Because now we’re not moving from a Mike Haller novel to another Mike Haller novel. We’re not moving from a Bosch novel to a new Bosch novel. No, now it’s all jumbled up a little bit. We’re all getting more and more involved in a Connelly cross-over. And for those who are all about finding the latest Connelly novels - all characters - things just got a lot more fun than before.

We pick up the Lincoln Lawyer, Mickey Haller’s brand new courtroom boiler, Resurrection Walk, from the Bosch-Ballard novel, Desert Star. In the latter, we’re made aware of how Renee Ballard is made in charge of a cold-case department and she 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 that her newly formed unit had just solved.

Resurrection Walk sort of picks up from there. Buoyant about making good on his promise to Ballard, buoyant that their intervention had helped free an innocent man after years of wrongful incarceration, 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 defense 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 - that’s been Bosch’s entire spiel for his entire life.

They eventually narrow down through the innumerable applications on a woman arrested for having fatally shot her sheriff’s department ex-husband. But 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. The book is unputdownable and getting two for the price of one, that’s just the cherry on top.

Smartly divided along the narrative styles Connelly has mastered for the two characters (Bosch in third-person and Haller in first), you cut across both styles effortlessly and find a sharp balance in the entire storytelling. The ending no doubt will 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 I’m sure there’s still space for a Bosch-Ballard-Haller magnum opus. That would be a fitting end for Harry Bosch and something that we can all look forward to with bated breath.

Resurrection Walk is aces as usual, something that you need to finish in an hour.

In other words, Resurrection Walk is totally unputdownable.