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Overview

Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home.

Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too—and he's certain he's on the right trail.

Despite the danger and uncertainty, Haller mounts the best defense of his career in a trial where the last surprise comes after the verdict is in. Connelly proves again why he "may very well be the best novelist working in the United States today" (San Francisco Chronicle).

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Mickey Haller's legal business has been hit hard by the recession, but he's decided to turn lemons into lemonade by coming to the aid of foreclosure victims. One of his very first cases backfires, however, when soon-to-be disposed teacher Lisa Trammel emerges as the foremost suspect in a homicide case. Applying all his legal and investigatory skills, Haller turns a prosecution slam-dunk into something far more interesting. Keyed with suspense and last minute surprises, Michael Connelly's latest courtroom procedural will keep you reading and guessing to the end. Editor's recommendation.

Marilyn Stasio
Connelly is…a master manipulator, and there's always something deadly serious behind his entertaining courtroom high jinks. Here he describes the background of the real estate collapse, exposing the venality involved in mortgage foreclosures. And just to keep it light, he throws in a few inside jokes about Hollywood hustlers and the things they'll do to get their hands on a hot property.
—The New York Times
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Publishers Weekly
Connelly's compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in "foreclosure defense." Haller's first foreclosure client, Lisa Trammel, is fighting hard to keep her home, maybe too hard. The bank has gotten a restraining order to stop Trammel's protests, and she becomes the prime suspect when Mitchell Bondurant, a mortgage banker, is killed with a hammer in his office parking lot. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. Connelly has a sure command of the legal and procedural details of criminal court, and even manages to make the arcane, shady world of foreclosure interesting. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. (Apr.)
Bill Ott
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE REVERSAL:

"Connelly may be our most versatile crime writer.... His Mickey Haller novels are testaments to the sublime architecture of plot.... Reading this book is like watching a master craftsman build something that holds together exquisitely, form and function in perfect alignment."
— Booklist

Julia Keller
"A Michael Connelly novel is a thing of cool beauty, meticulously plotted, rigorously controlled."
— Chicago Tribune
Paula L. Woods
PRAISE FOR NINE DRAGONS:

"Heart-pounding....To say that Nine Dragons is coiled tight with suspense understates Connelly's accomplishment in portraying Bosch at the cusp of a new world."
— Los Angeles Times

Library Journal
Connelly continues his winning streak with his latest thriller featuring attorney Mickey Haller (The Lincoln Lawyer). Lisa Trammel has hit the skids. Her husband took off, leaving her alone with a child. Her salary as a teacher is not enough to pay the mortgage, and the result is foreclosure. Trammel approaches Haller for help trying to save her home. Soon after, the person at the bank responsible for the foreclosure is found murdered in a parking garage next to his office. Within hours, Trammel is in jail, and Haller has to maneuver his way through more than potential bank fraud to prove his client's innocence. VERDICT When did Connelly become the best legal thriller writer in the business? The story line is compelling, intense, and terrifying while providing an in-depth look at the mortgage crisis that is surprisingly interesting. With the film version of The Lincoln Lawyer scheduled for release March 18, expect high demand. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 11/15/10.]—Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.
Kirkus Reviews

Just in time for his movie debut this spring, Connelly brings back the Lincoln Lawyer for a satisfying case that pits him against a real-estate foreclosure mill.

Lisa Trammel never met Mitchell Bondurant, but the two of them had reason to loathe each other. As senior vice president at WestLand National Bank, Bondurant made the call to foreclose on Trammel's house after her husband left her and their 9-year-old son and her mortgage went underwater. Nothing daunted, Trammel started a grassroots organization called Foreclosure Litigants Against Greed (FLAG) to fight WestLand and its allies in the media, and hired Mickey Haller (The Reversal, 2010, etc.) to fight WestLand in court. Both the legal battle and the media circus take a dramatic new turn when Bondurant is found bashed to death in a parking garage and a witness places Trammel half a block away within a few minutes of the bashing. Det. Howard Kurlen, LAPD, immediately picks up Trammel, questions her and then arrests her for murder. Digging in her heels, she insists that she didn't kill Bondurant; she never even met Bondurant; she's never changed her story one bit; and every bit of forensic evidence against her—and by the end, there's plenty—can be explained as part of a frame-up. It's the job of Mickey, his investigator Dennis ("Cisco") Wojciechowski and his new associate Jennifer ("Bullocks") Aronson to dig up someone who could plausibly have framed her. As the evidence piles up against Trammel, evidence casting suspicion on Bondurant's other associates piles up alongside it. Mickey is beaten up by two guys who clearly don't like the questions he's been asking. The mountain of paperwork prosecutor Andrea Freeman reluctantly shares with Mickey discloses an unsavory connection that could well point to another killer. And the third-party suspect Mickey zeroes in on obligingly behaves exactly like a guilty party.

"With me, it's don't ask, don't tell," Mickey tells the starry-eyed Bullock, who wonders why this junkyard dog never asks his client if she's innocent. Though the answer isn't as mysterious as you might like, the courtroom scenes—thrust, parry, struggle for every possible advantage—are grueling enough for the most exacting connoisseur of legal intrigue.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781455510313
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Publication date: 10/4/2011
  • Pages: 448
  • Sales rank: 1,420
  • Series: Mickey Haller Series , #4
  • Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly is a former journalist and the author of the #1 bestsellers The Scarecrow, The Brass Verdict and The Lincoln Lawyer, the bestselling series of Harry Bosch novels, and the bestselling novels Chasing the Dime, Void Moon, Blood Work, and The Poet. Crime Beat, a collection of his journalism, was also a New York Times bestseller. He spends his time in California and Florida.

Visit www.michaelconnelly.com

Biography

Best known for his dark police procedurals featuring the tough, complex and emotionally scarred LAPD detective, Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, Michael Connelly has been called "infernally ingenious" (The New York Times), "one of those masters...who can keep driving the story forward in runaway locomotive style" (USA Today) and "the top rank of a new generation of crime writers" (The Los Angeles Times).

Consistently exquisite prose and engrossing storylines play an integral role in his swelling success. However, Connelly believes that solid character development is the most important key. As he explained to MagnaCumMurder.com, "I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true."

A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Connelly attended the University of Florida; there he discovered the works of Raymond Chandler -- author of many classic Los Angeles-based noir dramas such as The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, and Farewell, My Lovely. The cases of Philip Marlowe inspired Connelly to be a crime novelist -- and by studying journalism, he put himself in the perfect position. "I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about -- police and criminals, the criminal justice system," he told MagnaCumMurder.com.

After graduation, Connelly worked the crime beat for two Florida newspapers. When a story he and a colleague wrote about the disastrous 1985 crash of Delta Flight 191 was short-listed for the Pulitzer, Connelly landed a gig in Marlowe's backyard, covering crime for one of the nation's largest newspapers -- The Los Angeles Times. Three years later, Harry Bosch was introduced in The Black Echo, which earned Connelly the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Connelly has since won every major mystery honor, including the Anthony (The Poet, Blood Work) and the Macavity Award (Blood Work).

While Connelly has written stand-alone novels that don't feature his tragic protagonist Harry Bosch, he is best identified by his rigid, contentious and fiery -- but also immensely skilled and compassionate -- detective. According to The Boston Globe, the Bosch series "raises the hard-boiled detective novel to a new level...adding substance and depth to modern crime fiction."

Called "one of the most compelling, complex protagonists in recent crime fiction" (Newsweek) and "a terrific...wonderful, old-fashioned hero who isn't afraid to walk through the flames -- and suffer the pain for the rest of us" (The New York Times Book Review), Bosch faces unforgettable horrors every day -- either on the street or in his own mind. "Bosch is making up for wrongs done to him when he rights wrongs as a homicide detective," Connelly explained in an interview with his publisher. "In a way, he is an avenging angel."

Bosch is clearly a product of his deadly, unforgiving environment. "The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work," said Connelly in the same interview. With each passing novel, Bosch looks deeper and deeper into the abyss; and readers continue to return to see just how far he will gaze.

Good To Know

  • Michael Connelly received a huge career boost in 1994 when then President Bill Clinton was photographed walking out of a Washington bookstore with a copy of The Concrete Blonde under his arm. Connelly remarked to USA Today, "In the six years I've been writing books, that is the biggest thrill I've had."

  • Real events have always inspired Connelly's plots. His novel Blood Work was inspired by a friend who underwent transplant surgery and was coping with survivor's guilt, knowing someone had died in order for him to live. The book was later developed into a feature film starring Clint Eastwood, Angelica Huston, and Jeff Daniels.

  • One of Connelly's writing professors at the University of Florida was cult novelist Harry Crews.

  • Connelly named his most famous character after the 15th Century Dutch painter, Hieronymous Bosch. As he told Bookends UK in an interview, Bosch "created richly detailed landscapes of debauchery and violence and human defilement. There is a ‘world gone mad' feel to many of his works, including one called ‘Hell' -- of which a print hangs on the wall over the computer where I write." Some interesting outtakes from our interview with Connelly:

    "I wrote a mystery story as a class paper in high school. It was called The Perfect Murder. The protagonist's named was McEvoy, a name I later used for the protagonist in The Poet. Being a witness to a crime when I was 16 was what made me interested in crime novels and mystery stories."

    "I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes."

    "Everything I want people to know about me is in my books."

      1. Hometown:
        Sarasota, Florida
      1. Date of Birth:
        July 21, 1956
      2. Place of Birth:
        Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
      1. Education:
        B.A. in Journalism, University of Florida, 1980
      2. Website:
        http://www.michaelconnelly.com

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    • Posted March 27, 2011

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      What happens to a lawyer when he develops a conscious?

      Mickey Haller has always played it a little to the left of respectability and liked it there. He learned how to play the game well from his late father reputed to be the greatest lawyer ever to hit the legal system. Mickey is a great guy, wonderful father and not to bad ex-husband, but with the legal system it is all about the check mark in the win column and how you get there is not the issue but the answer. But when you are faced with doing something that even crosses your line what are you going to do?

      Now that times are a little rough economically Mickey is dealing with the lucrative foreclosure market. This new avenue to obtain clients is paying well and still lets him keep his office in the back of his Lincoln, traveling around from one court house to another kicking legal butt. But when one of his foreclosure clients is accused of killing the banker who is about to kick her out of her house Mickey get back in full lawyer mode and takes this one head on. Mickey never asks if his client did the deed he just asks "can you cover my retainer and do you have a credit card that can handle the monthly charge"?

      But this client is setting off even Mickey's sense of something is not right when the pieces of the crime too perfectly don't fit the client or her ability to have murdered the banker. When she makes bail and shows up with her movie producer the situation goes from bad to ridiculous with Mickey indignant and threatening breach of contract. But this time perhaps Mickey took on something he can't handle and finds out quickly someone does not like his courtroom tactics and he winds up in the hospital after a brutal attack. This may be a murder case, but it is definitely one that appears be a guilty client committing the perfect crime he just can't figure out how.

      Michael Connelly consistently knows how to write a great mystery with characters that show up and get the job done with every book. The stories are always current with a twist of what is going on in the world around us and they never stop surprising me with their depth and ability to follow the leads through regardless of where they take them. I thought The Lincoln Lawyer was going to be Mickey Haller's best story written but this one showed me how wrong I am. Pay attention as you read this book because the nuisances will shock you in the end if you miss them and you will find yourself going back to figure out "where did I miss that clue at"?

      31 out of 34 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted March 25, 2011

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      The Best Lincoln Lawyer Novel to Date!

      This engaging courtroom thriller is by far Mr. Connelly's best Lincoln Lawyer tale to date! This time Mickey Haller has jumped on the foreclosure bandwagon and is servicing clients who are about to lose their house. One of those clients is Lisa Trammel who has started a protest group that against her bank that garners national attention.

      When the Bank Officer servicing Lisa's loan is murdered, Lisa is the prime suspect and it is up to Mickey to defend her. Through the handling of Lisa's mortgage case against the bank, Mickey knows that there were a lot of "fishy" practices going on and that Lisa may have been set up. The courtroom drama is intense and Mr. Connelly has the reader hooked on every sentence of the narrative.

      Mr. Connelly also paints a picture of LAPD law enforcement (with the exception of Harry Bosch) working with "tunnel vision," meaning that once they have a possible suspect, they ignore all leads not related to the suspect and only pursue what will make a case against that suspect. This may in part be due to the economics of doing an investigation. The prosecution in this case seems to only be interested in seeing the accused go down and to discount any other "theories" of what may have occurred, especially if those paths may point to a different individual as the perpetrator of the crime.

      Mr. Connelly also gives us more insight into Mickey's supporting team, especially his investigator Cisco. Mickey seems to have evolved from the "sleezy" lawyer we had seen in the first Lincoln Lawyer novel and is now a relentless pursuer of getting to the truth. There are also some surprises with Mickey's evolving "post-married" relationship with Maggie, his ex.

      I thoroughly enjoyed this book from start to finish and look forward to more Mickey stories!

      14 out of 16 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted April 11, 2011

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      Finally, Something Good To Read

      I had hit a spell of books that did not stir my interest, so I was pleased to spend a few hours in the court room with Micky Haller, who, of course, now looks just like Mathew McConaughey from the film version of The Lincoln Lawyer. Michael Connelly is an author who can write a courtroom drama without messing up the reality of how a court really works. He maintains the suspension throughout- I finished it all in one day. There are plenty of surprise twists, and I ended up rooting for Mickey to have a bright future.

      12 out of 12 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted April 5, 2011

      one of the BEST ever

      I cant believe anyone would quibble over these prices--i used to pay 20+ dollars every
      time i bought a hardback book --this is one area prices have gone down---- And I think this book is one of the best legal mysteries I have ever read --- and the ending i never saw coming!!

      9 out of 18 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted February 9, 2011

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      This is an excellent tale.

      Los Angeles lawyer Mickey Haller runs a "foreclosure defense" from his Lincoln town car. Lisa Trammel becomes his first foreclosure client. However, the bank holding her mortgage files a legal restraining order to end her shenanigans. Soon afterward someone kills mortgage banker Mitchell Bondurant with a hammer in a parking lot.

      The police suspect Trammel killed the banker in a rage. Haller defends his client against a homicide charge in which the evidence overwhelmingly condemns his client and he believes she is guilty. He begins to change his mind when someone assaults him when he and his team search for evidence that Bondurant was working unethical and probably illegal mortgage schemes

      The latest Lincoln Lawyer legal thriller (see Reversal) may prove to be the sub-genre book of the year as Michael Connolly provides a fascinating detailed look at the mortgage crisis; those who still insist the market corrects its mistakes need this primer. Yet with that theme running throughout, the author shows his talent as he makes that theme interesting and intertwines it inside a legal whodunit that will have readers staying up later than the second half of the Superbowl. This is an excellent tale.

      Harriet Klausner

      8 out of 11 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted April 17, 2011

      huh.

      Not sure, but I thought this section was for book reviews not reviews of pricing?

      7 out of 12 people found this review helpful.

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    • Anonymous

      Posted April 8, 2011

      What the hell People!!!

      First off, Great book! Not as good as the firs 3 Mickey Haller books, but still a good read. Now, for all you people complaining about the price. It's just $12.99 for a BRAND NEW BOOK!! I'd like to see you go buy it brand new in hardcover for that price. Can't do it. Sure you can get papperbacks for less, but your gonna wait for a year before this comes out in papperback. I'm Just Sayin!

      5 out of 11 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted April 12, 2011

      excellent read!

      absolutely lived it!

      4 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted April 9, 2011

      High expectations

      I just downloaded & started reading it,so enjoying it; I am writing this because I am sick of people using this forum for complaints about costs etc. Try living in a small town before internet and always paying full price for a book if you could even find it! Barnes & Nobles have great discounts and free shipping for regular books. Now with the Nook you can buy a book in the middle of the night without leaving the comfort of your home and in case you haven't notice, no sales tax,(for me that is 7% not paid) There is an alternative; get it in hardback from the library, that is if like a friend of mine; you don't mind waiting until your name comes up on the list of those requesting a copy!

      4 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted May 24, 2011

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      Another hit for Mr. Connelly

      Mickey Haller is a defense attorney by trade but that doesn't define him by any means, he's served as a special prosecutor and now that the need for defense is way down in LA he's decided to follow national trends of foreclosure law and play a modern day David keeping people in their homes against a Goliath bank or mortgage company. Business is brisk which is great for he and his associates and he even has some very deserving clients. One of his other kind of client the whiny, pain in the rump kind was just arrested for killing her Goliath banker so it's back to Mickey Haller for the defense. The more he digs into this case the more murky the waters become and to get to the bottom of this he and his team will need to get their feet wet, and yet at every turn the prosecution seems to be one step ahead, but one thing Mickey never does is give up and he'll go down swinging for his client.
      Michael Connelly is a master storyteller and a brilliant author. He can lead a reader to open a book and that reader will not put it down until the last page is finished. As with most of Mr. Connelly's novels, this one is right up there in it's timely and trendy content and is right off the headline newsreel. His narrative is also a stand out as he often discusses very meticulous legal issues and yet a layman will never feel the need to turn to a dictionary as he does an amazing job of explaining all technical and difficult terms in a language that is easily understood. His characters are all rock star status as far as I'm concerned and in his Mickey Haller series that's even more evident when Mickey's two ex-wives are very much a part of his everyday life.
      If you've never read Michael Connelly you can start with any novel, even within the series as they all make excellent stand a lones, but do yourself a favor and in the series go back and start from the beginning where you'll learn all the history of the characters and their stories. No matter what you do, do read The Fifth Witness, not only for the fast paced action, not for the nail biting trial results, not even to find out what he and ex-wife number one are up to, read it for the explosive cliffhanger at the end of the book.
      Mr. Connelly you have constantly surprised me, but this takes the cake. I can't wait to see where Mickey goes from here.

      3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted May 14, 2011

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      How does he just get better and better?

      I love Michael Connelly--books and cameos in "Castle". Each time a new book comes out I think, "He can't do better than the last one" and then I'm proven wrong. Same thing this time.

      Connelly's "The Fifth Witness" is very much a courtroom thriller as opposed to a straight murder mystery. And, as an attorney, I am amazed at the details and, mostly, correct procedure and law there is in this book.

      The sometimes moral issues faced by a criminal defense attorney are played out well--nothing preachy or overreaching just the moments when an attorney must balance Constitutional guarantees with defending people the attorney doesn't really like.

      In my opinion, nothing can kill a book quicker than shallow characters. "The Fifth Witness" is abundant with reach, full dimensional characters and backstories that help bring them to life.

      I don't write synopsis type reviews--you can get that from the back of the book and I don't want to spoil the book by leaking details.

      But I do want to say that, once again, Connelly makes me wonder why there are so many Grisham fans--nothing after "The Firm" written by Grisham even comes close to Connelly's books and, at least for now, "The Fifth Witness" may be the best of all.

      3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted April 7, 2011

      Connelly did not disappoint.

      In anticipation of this release I reread all Connelly's novels over the past six (6) weeks. This was very good story plot, great intrigue and solid writing. A very enjoyable read. In addition to the story and fantastic descriptions of Los Angeles, the book has believable characters and a humanity that is Connnelly's trademark. Highly recommend this read.

      3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted May 22, 2011

      Disappointing

      I wanted to like this book: Haller and his staff, especially his private investigator Cisco, appeal to me. They are flawed and they are simply ... cool. Haller's client isn't likable and and the prosecutor is. The story has situational and character complexities that promise a lot more tension than actually exists. I was disappointed by this book and do not recommend it. Based on some reviews of The Lincoln Lawyer, I'm willing to give Connelly one more chance.

      2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted April 23, 2011

      Great Read!!

      Great Read!! Captivating and Intriguing, a real must!!

      2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted April 19, 2011

      Great Read

      I couldn't put the book down loved it

      2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted April 5, 2011

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      not my favorite character

      Dont care for this character. PLease bring back Harry Bosch!!

      2 out of 15 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted July 13, 2011

      Ok

      Not his best work

      1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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    • Anonymous

      Posted June 10, 2011

      It's only ok

      Michael Connelly is one of my favorite authors, but I found this book a chore- too much court, not enough characters. I had to make myself finish, but I was glad I did. The last 50 (or so) pages make the book worth reading. Like other reviewers, I guess I'm more of a Harry Bosch fan.

      1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted May 14, 2011

      Recommend

      Loved the Book, love the Nook!

      1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted May 12, 2011

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      Another great book from the master

      Great book, and Mickey had me right from the first page. It is a testament to Connelly's skill that I was completely enthralled with a story featuring a completely unlikeable defendent about a case involving foreclosure. Anyone else writing about this type of thing would put me to sleep within 5 pages. I have one minor complaint, and that is I didn't see the purpose behind the beating Mickey took. Even in hindsight after all the revelations are out on the table, it didn't make sense to me. But I liked Mickey's decision at the end of the book and it makes me eager for the next installment. I also have high hopes he and Maggie will get back together.

      1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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