The Crossing

Retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch reluctantly agrees to help his half-brother and defense attorney Mickey Haller investigate a murder case that looks like a setup. A former gang member turned family man faces a murder charge that Haller believes was manufactured, and Bosch must cross the aisle he spent thirty years on the other side of to find the truth. The investigation takes him inside the department he left, testing every loyalty and instinct he built during his career.

Titus Welliver, who plays Bosch in the Amazon television series, brings a performance of rare authenticity to this audiobook. His understanding of the character at a physical and psychological level gives the narration a gravity that purely studio-trained narrators rarely achieve with procedural fiction. Welliver's Bosch sounds like a man who carries his cases home with him, and that quality of earned exhaustion is exactly what Connelly's prose is reaching for.