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THE LAW OF INNOCENCE

Michael Connelly

Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is back in the heartstopping new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is charged with murder and can't make the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge.

Mickey elects to defend himself and must strategize and build his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles, all the while looking over his shoulder--as an officer of the court he is an instant target.

Mickey knows he's been framed. Now, with the help of his trusted team, he has to figure out who has plotted to destroy his life and why. Then he has to go before a judge and jury and prove his innocence.

In his highest stakes case yet, Mickey Haller fights for his life and shows why he is "a worthy colleague of Atticus Finch... in the front of the pack in the legal thriller game" (Los Angeles Times).

Michael Connelly is the author of thirty-five novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Night Fire and Dark Sacred Night. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than seventy-four million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of Bosch, starring Titus Welliver, and the creator and host of the podcast Murder Book. He spends his time in California and Florida. His books have been published in 44 countries.

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Book Published 2020-11-10 by Little Brown
Book Published 2020-11-10 by Little Brown

Comments

A fine legal thriller and a revealing character study... Connelly has always displayed great ability to write courtroom scenes, combining thrust-and-parry exchanges between defense and prosecution with a look at the personal motives driving all the players. He does all that here, too, but the extended focus on the pretrial discovery process, with Bosch and investigator Cisco Wojciechowski doing the legwork while Haller sits in jail, gives the novel a double-barreled appeal.

This is a supremely intelligent, well-paced courtroom thriller by a modern master.

The arguments are brilliantly plotted, and the action is wholly compelling. For those who love courtroom thrillers, The Law of Innocence delivers!

Just out in the US, UK, and ANZ, THE LAW OF INNOCENCE is an immediate bestseller in all three markets!

...a tightly crafted thriller, with some nice crossover flair to boot.

Connelly's latest novel demonstrates why I say he's the GOAT ("Greatest of All Time") of police and legal procedural thrillers.

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Buoyed by the slick duds and his brainy patter, the so-called Lincoln Lawyer...turns in another dazzling courtroom performance. Read more...

THE LAW OF INNOCENCE has gone straight to the top of the New York Times hardcover fiction (and print + ebook combined) list on publication!

A tightly crafted thriller, with some nice crossover flair to boot... Haller is the creation of legendary crime author, Michael Connelly, and has his own wildly popular series under his better known moniker, The Lincoln Lawyer.

In The Law of Innocence, Michael Connelly brilliantly captures the desperation of a lawyer-turned-defendant facing a long stretch in a prison full of people with scores to settle. Narration in the first person, showing a canny legal mind working furiously to hit on the right legal play, calibrates the suspense to an unbearable, read-in-one-sitting level.

Nobody writing today has more range than Michael Connelly, who is in top form here, delivering not only the best legal thriller of the year, but perhaps the best legal thriller to hit bookstores in the last decade. .Connelly treats readers to a deliciously suspenseful, twisting, unputdownable thriller that begs to be read in a single sitting... Masterfully plotted and impossible to put down, Law of Innocence is everything readers have come to expect from Michael Connelly, a once-in-a-lifetime talent who continues to show why he's one of the greatest writers the genre has ever known.

...grabs you on the very first page and doesn't let go until the final, last-minute, twist. Bravo maestro!

As always, Connelly does a splendid job with both the courtroom drama and the suspenseful, often dangerous process behind it.

Connelly's novels have long been distinguished by his mastery of the complexities of the justice system including an ability to get police and courtroom procedures exactly right. Combine this with a cast of well-drawn characters, writing as precise as a Patek Philippe watch, and a propulsive plot, and the result is one of the finest legal thrillers of the last decade.

Mickey Haller is the kind of slick, cynical showman who can't resist making high drama out of every routine legal procedure... But Connelly is himself a master manipulator, and there's always something deadly serious behind his entertaining courtroom high jinks.

Connelly treats readers to a deliciously suspenseful, twisting, unputdownable thriller that begs to be read in a single sitting.

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