The Crossing (Bosch)

"In The Crossing, Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch, the hero of Michael Connelly’s long-running series of police procedurals, has been forced to retire from the LAPD. Harry gives leisure living a halfhearted try, but he finds that the vintage motorcycle he had planned to tinker with as a hobby interests him for about 10 minutes. Indeed, so antsy is Harry that when his half-brother, Mickey Haller (who is himself the hero of Connelly’s “Lincoln Lawyer” series), asks him to sign on as an investigator, Harry surprisingly agrees. Haller, after all, is the enemy — a criminal defense attorney — and working for him means Harry is “crossing” over to the other side. Harry may be officially over the hill as far as the Los Angeles Police Department is concerned, but Connelly is still very much in his prime."