Mickey Haller & Harry Bosch together take on a seemingly unwinnable case in blistering legal thriller from Number One bestseller Michael Connelly When defence lawyer Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him he knows something strange is going on Mickey's one of the best American legal brains in the business & to switch sides likes this would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup a convicted child killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him is an intriguing one Eager for the publicity & drawn to the challenge Mickey takes the case with LAPD Detective Harry Bosch on board as his lead investigator But as a new trial date is set it starts to look like he's been set up Mickey & Harry are going to have to dig deep into the past & find the truth about what really happened to the victim all those years ago in this nail-biting courtroom drama