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Sarah Broadhurst's view...
Reviewed on Richard and Judy on 22 March 2006. He’s a well-known, bestselling American author of fast-paced crime but this one is a little out of the norm. It’s a fascinating insight into the workings of the American legal system, there are many such but this is very good. The devious, almost illegal, way the system can be manipulated is highly informative and enthralling. This title is also available as an Audiobook, in either CD or cassette format.
Comparison: John Grisham, Robert Crais, David Baldacci.
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Synopsis
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
They're called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln Town Car, taking whatever cases the system throws in their path.
Mickey Haller has been in the business a long time, and he knows just how to work it. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence's side, and Haller might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent.
But when his case starts to fall apart and neither the suspect nor the victim are quite who they seem, Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, it's easy to wind up as prey.
Reviews
'It's the final Richard & Judy Book Club selection of the season ... With typical perspicacity, they've chosen The Lincoln Lawyer ... Quite right too.Connelly writes some of the most enjoyable crime fiction'
David Sexton EVENING STANDARD
About the Author
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Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the
books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida.
After graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona
Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, ending up as a crime reporter for
the Los Angeles Times, one of the largest papers in the country, and
bringing him to the city of which his literary hero, Chandler, had
written.
After three years on the crime beat in L.A., Connelly began
writing his first novel to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. The
novel, The Black Echo, based in part on a true crime that had occurred
in Los Angeles, was published in 1992 and won the Edgar Award for Best
First Novel by the Mystery Writers of America. The rest is crime writing history.
He lives in Tampa, Florida, with his wife and daughter.
Author photo © Wendy Werri
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