by Michael Connelly
So I really did enjoy this one, but thought the angst that Haller was dealing with was ridiculous. I also wish that Connelly had showed us Haller running for the DA's office and how the scandal affected him in the moment. We are hearing about events from about a year ago in the series and it just dr...
Defense attorney Mickey Haller returns with a haunting case in the gripping new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highe...
Getting a not-guilty verdict was a long shot. Even when you knew in your gut that you were sitting next to an innocent man at the defense table, you also knew that the NGs came grudgingly from a system designed only to deal with the guilty. Which is why most novels about lawyers are about defense l...
Another excellent story in the Mickey Haller series. My one complaint is that the series seems to skip over huge events in Mickey's life and career that are of great interest to his readers, leaving those things to be explained away in a few lines of backstory. I also find it really doubtful that a ...
Mickey Haller (The Lincoln Lawyer) receives a strange text on his phone that included the penal code for murder. He discovers that the victim is someone from his past. A prostitute he had helped on more than one occasion. His last interaction with her had been to give her money and send her on he...
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Musings on the choosing of what books to take to a desert islandEverytime I'm hard-pressed to choose my proverbial books to take to a desert island, it always comes to mind Simon Cowell (I forgot in what circumstances), when told he was being given the Bible and Shakespeare, saying "You mean to READ...
4.5 stars, rounding up to five because there's really only one thing that kept it from being five stars. Said thing being an event near the end of the book that was too predictable due to foreshadowing. Other than that, Michael Connelly has hit another home run for me. You've all heard me sing his p...