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Loading... The Lincoln Lawyer : A Novel (original 2005; edition 2005)by Michael Connelly
Work detailsThe Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (2005)
By far one of my favorite Connelly novels and perhaps one of my all-time favorite legal suspense thrillers. I can see why this was made into a movie for which I look forward to seeing some day. This is one of those books that I couldn't put down. Especially the last 100 pages. And, no matter how hard I tried to guess the ending, it wasn't how it turned out. Get ready for a roller-coaster ride of a story with an ending that will totally take you by surprise. (  ) gdill | May 16, 2013 |  Wanted to see this Matthew McConaughey movie and since I always enjoy reading the book first, gave it a try. Enjoyed the book and made viewing the movie better. I'll read more of this series - good legal thrillers. Read in 2011 (  )1  CasaBooks | Apr 28, 2013 | Very well written mystery. MH defends a real estate agent accused of attempted rape and murder of a prostitute. Many twists and turns without going off the deep end of suspense. (  ) addunn3 | Apr 11, 2013 | Not the type of book I normally choose to invest time in, but I did enjoy the story and the characters. ( ) lindap69 | Apr 5, 2013 | There must be a speaking style that can be classified as standard English. One with no accent or brogue or other affectations, dissociated from ethnic or regional preferences, easy to understand and leaving no room for misunderstanding or misinterpretation. And if there were such, then the narrator for this audiobook had it down cold. For a while, I had begun to dread getting books on Audible because no matter how well rated or reviewed the book may be on Goodreads, I always seem to end up with narration that is hard to understand and painful to listen to, massacre-ing an otherwise well-written novel. But thankfully, this was not the case for this audiobook. In fact, I looked forward to my listening periods for both the next unfolding in the novel as well as to hear the nicely modulated voice of the narrator.
The novel itself was fine, and perhaps this assessment is tainted by how I appreciated the audio performance. The writing was smooth, unobtrusive. I was not bothered by cliches noted by other reviewers. In the past I have noted that cliches are ok as they allow the writer to move the story forward without going into another digression to explain a minor plot movement. The author was quite skillful in this regard, putting in cliches only where it made sense and helped the book move along.
I liked the development of the lead character, including his moral flaws and how he must deal with them to continue to have a meaningful life and career. The villain was not so convincing, but I was not meant to care about him, and so this made his development less of an issue. The other characters seemed to me pastiches of well-developed roles seen in movies and TV, in a way that one can imagine actors that may play these roles, an incidental thought that may actually be realized since a movie was made of this a couple of years ago.
My rating for this audiobook is both for the writing and the audio performance. I will probably read/listen to another book in this series. ( ) ricaustria | Apr 5, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (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 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 01:49:15 -0400) Representing the system's most unsavory characters in his work as a criminal defense lawyer, jaded attorney Mickey Haller takes on his first high-paying and possibly innocent client in years, but finds the case complicated by sinister events that suggest the workings of a particularly evil perpetrator.… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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