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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  Scourgie | Nov 14, 2009 |  Michael Connelly writing for the defense? Harry Bosch must be having a fit somewhere :)! I was impressed withConnelly's take on the legal thriller. Fast moving, even if it was a bit predictable, but still enough twists and turns to keep you interested until the end. Mickey Haller is the funniest character of Connelly's to date and I wouldn't mind reading a few more of his cases. (  ) debavp | Nov 8, 2009 | An excellent plane trip read with a driving, business like first person narrative and quite a bit more realism than one normally gets in the lawyer/thriller genre. (  ) dazzyj | Oct 10, 2009 | Mickey Haller, a defence lawyer, operates out the back of his Lincoln. He is always on the lookout for business and thinks he's hit gold when he is hired to defend Louis Roullet. But the path is not straight and with each twist and turn, the landscape changes. Mickey thinks he is calling the tune as it plays out the way he has planned but then it's out of his control and he's fighting to survive. Great story. (  ) maree57 | Oct 2, 2009 | Michael Connelly takes a break from the Harry Bosch series and rolls out a new character named Mickey Haller, a colourful, witty, and busy defence lawyer who mainly works out of the backseat of his Lincoln as he hunts the courts of Los Angeles County for likely cases. In this well-focused novel, Connelly offers a new take on the "noir" hero - ironic, beaten down, but with finer aspirations – by melding it with the popular conception of the sleazy criminal defence lawyer. Haller has been called to defend a Beverly Hills real estate salesman who has a reputation as something of a playboy, and who's been accused of attempted rape. Haller is desperate for the case, thinking that it will be a "franchise", a case that goes on for a long time and will result in large fees for him. When things go wrong and someone close to Haller is killed in the course of the investigation, he has to figure a lawyer's way out of the predicament he's gotten himself into. The result is amusing, to say the least. The Lincoln Lawyer is classic Connolly - exciting, interesting, and crisply told. While he’s not Harry Bosch, Mickey Haller is a character I look forward to meeting again. ( ) Jawin | Sep 11, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0316734934, Hardcover)Best-selling author Michael Connelly, whose character-driven literary mysteries have earned him a wide following, breaks from the gate in the over-crowded field of legal thrillers and leaves every other contender from Grisham to Turow in the dust with this tightly plotted, brilliantly paced, impossible-to-put-down novel.Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller's father was a legendary lawyer whose clients included gangster Mickey Cohen (in a nice twist, Cohen's gun, given to Dad then bequeathed to his son, plays a key role in the plot). But Dad also passed on an important piece of advice that's especially relevant when Mickey takes the case of a wealthy Los Angeles realtor accused of attempted murder: "The scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you [screw] up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life." Louis Roulet, Mickey's "franchise client" (so-called becaue he's able and willing to pay whatever his defense costs) seems to be the one his father warned him against, as well as being a few rungs higher on the socio-economic ladder than the drug dealers, homeboys, and motorcycle thugs who comprise Mickey's regular case load. But as the holes in Roulet's story tear Mickey's theory of the case to shreds, his thoughts turn more to Jesus Menendez, a former client convicted of a similar crime who's now languishing in San Quentin. Connelly tellingly delineates the code of legal ethics Mickey lives by: "It didn't matter...whether the defendant 'did it' or not. What mattered was the evidence against him--the proof--and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt." But by the time his client goes to trial, Mickey's feeling a few very reasonable doubts of his own. While Mickey's courtroom pyrotechnics dazzle, his behind-the-scenes machinations and manipulations are even more incendiary in this taut, gripping novel, which showcases all of Connelly's literary gifts. There's not an excess sentence or padded paragraph in it--what there is, happily, is a character who, like Harry Bosch, deserves a franchise series of his own. --Jane Adams (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:23 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Connelly does a great job weaving the client stories together into the main plot and showing the reader a character going through a crisis of conscience. What I particularly enjoyed was how, unlike in a typical John Grisham book, the lawyer came out the other side of the crisis as a lawyer doing the same work as before. The character didn't transform, just learned and got better - a realistic end to a well-researched story.
I might be tempted to pick up more Michael Connelly books in the future when looking for a quick trade paperback read. (