The attorney said I had to plea guilty or I would get life for killing a law enforcement officer.

After reading Greenlights: Raucous stories and outlaw wisdom from the Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, I thought I’d watch the renowned Lincoln Lawyer movie only to realize I’d had already seen it BUT that I hadn’t read the books.

Resurrection Walk is the seventh book in the Lincoln Lawyer series by Michael Connelly. It’s about defence attorney Mickey Haller and his half-brother, retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch, who work to prove the innocence of a woman convicted of murdering her husband: 

Haller is inundated with pleas from prisoners who claim innocence after getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison. He enlists Bosch to help weed through the letters, and Bosch finds a woman who claims to be innocent of killing her husband, a sheriff’s deputy. However, the evidence doesn’t add up, and the sheriff’s department pushed for quick closure. Haller and Bosch face a David versus Goliath court battle, and the secrets they discover could lead to an innocent woman walking free, but could also be worth killing for. 

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From my POV this book was meh. It does present the Lincoln Lawyer in a good light – taking on a case pro-bono mostly to boost his TV ratings and it finds a case saucy enough – a woman killing a man – a police officer as well. We all know the police to be pretty prejudiced in jailing anyone who dares put a finger on one of their own, and this case is no different, the woman being accused and sentenced immediately, without reportedly following the true course of justice.

The judge finally *spoiler* lets the woman go because of a technicality. The attending officer tempered with the evidence in order to make the woman look guiltier than she appeared. Then she got to walk free – the resurrection walk.