The Reversal [Paperback]

Connelly writes in a tough, unsentimental way and creates a stunning tale that doesn't let go until the final page. (CATHOLIC HERALD )

Connelly explodes courtroom fireworks. (EVENING TELEGRAPH )

An absolutely fabulous thriller, one of the best I have ever read (TELEGRAPH & ARGUS )

'The ensuing Scott Turow-style court drama, starring both of Connelly's favourite characters, is as exciting as anything this formidable writer has ever produced.' -- Carla McKay DAILY MAIL This is vastly superior stuff, from America's greatest living crime writer. -- Henry Sutton THE MIRROR This novel is further proof that this writer is on a roll. ... Connelly's background as a police reporter gives his books the powerful verisimilitude that few possess and balancing the police and legal shenanigans makes for wonderfully involving reading ... -- Barry Forshaw THE EXPRESS Connelly masterfully manages to marry an absorbing courtroom drama with a tense and exciting thriller of detection. -- Marcel Berlins THE TIMES The Reversal is further proof of [Connelly's] proficiency THE INDEPENDENT Connelly's double act of attorney Haller and detective Bosch ring the changes on conventional crime plots. I newspaper Haller, gunning for the prosecution for the first time, and Bosch, investigating a crime that may have been misread, have their work cut out for them in a tale that skids across Los Angeles's landscape, from canyons to courtroom. TIME OUT Expect surprises and plenty of dark moments in this punchy legal drama from an ever-reliable writer. FINANCIAL TIMES ...the novel has a gripping clarity from the off, and very quickly establishes a gripping momentum. ... it's another expertly handled tale from a born storyteller that blazes into an incendiary denouement as the child-killer turns his gaze on Mickey and Harry's daughters. IRISH TIMES --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch together take on a seemingly unwinnable case in Michael Connelly's latest blistering bestseller.

When 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 a defence lawyer, one of the best in the business, and to switch sides like 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 and drawn to the challenge, Mickey takes the case, with 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 and Harry are going to have to dig deep into the past and find the truth about what really happened to the victim all those years ago.

A former police reporter for the LOS ANGELES TIMES, Michael Connelly is the author of the acclaimed Harry Bosch thriller series and several other bestselling novels. He lives in Tampa, Florida, with his wife and daughter.