By Michael Connelly
For the 1st time in a single quantity, the 3 novels that brought the Lincoln attorney, Mickey Haller, who learns that "There isn't any consumer as frightening as an blameless man."
The Lincoln Lawyer
For Mickey Haller, the legislation is never approximately guilt or innocence, it's approximately negotiation and manipulation. while he will get employed through a Beverly Hills wealthy boy arrested for attack, Mickey sees a franchise case: a protracted, pricey trial with greatest billable hours-until it places him face-to-face with natural evil and with a guy who might really be blameless. For a attorney who has continually long past for the simple ranking, getting justice capability risking every thing.
The Brass Verdict
When a former colleague is murdered, Mickey inherits his largest case but: protecting a Hollywood manufacturer accused of killing his spouse and her lover. Haller scrambles to organize for trial, and learns that the killer should be coming for him subsequent. input LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, who will do no matter what it takes to crack the case, together with utilizing Mickey as bait. As hazard quick mounts, those loners discover that their basically likelihood is to interact.
The Reversal
Mickey is recruited to prosecute the high-profile retrial of Jason Jessup, a convicted baby killer, exonerated after twenty-four years via new DNA facts. confident Jessup is accountable, Haller brings in Harry Bosch as his investigator. With their key witness lacking, and the percentages and proof opposed to them, Bosch and Haller needs to nail a sadistic killer ahead of he kills back.
Together, those 3 exhilarating, fiercely paced novels exhibit that "Connelly is a master...once he has you on board, turning pages, you won't are looking to climb off" (Boston Globe).
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Not yet. ' "We've got monochrome security videotape of a light coloured minivan entering the garage eleven minutes before the event. Can't see the plates for mud and dirt, and the camera angle isn't great. But it's probably a Dodge Caravan, not new, with aftermarket tinted windows. ' 'OK, obtained,' Emerson said. ' Rodin nodded. ' Emerson nodded in turn. 'Right where the new construction starts. Therefore the cone would have looked plausible. We have a witness who saw it in place at least an hour before.
Ready. Infiltration successful. Now wait until the time is right. He waited about seven minutes, keeping still, breathing low, clearing his mind. He looked at the library on his left. Above it and behind it a spur of the raised highway curled in on stilts, like it was embracing the big old limestone building, cradling it, protecting it from harm. Then it straightened a little and passed behind the black glass tower. It was about level with the fourth storey back there. The tower itself had the NBC peacock on a monolith near its main entrance, but the man with the rifle was sure that a small network affiliate didn't occupy the whole building.
He slid the papers across his desk to Rodin. Rodin picked them up and scanned them through, once, twice, carefully. Emerson watched his eyes. Saw him thinking the guy, the gun, the crime. It was like watching a Vegas slot machine line up three cherries. Bing bing bing! A total certainty. 'James Barr,' Rodin said, like he was savouring the sound of the words. He separated out the DL picture and gazed at it. ' 'Amen to that,' Emerson said, waiting for a compliment. I'll get the warrants,' Rodin said.