A terrific LA noir thriller based on a novel by Michael Connelly.
You know you’re desperate for another Michael Connelly novel when you’re walking on a city street, see a Lincoln Town Car, in a town full of Lincoln Town Cars, and wonder if perhaps itinerant attorney Mickey Haller is conducting his law practice inside the car. You know you’re desperate for that new Michael Connelly novel when you just assume that Mickey Haller is on his way to or from trouble or dodging a bullet, or perhaps just preparing a brief. But wait! If trouble is in store, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch ought to know about it!
Relief is coming your way. Michael Connelly’s new book, The Fifth Witness, features Mickey Haller, otherwise known as The Lincoln Lawyer. One of the most thrilling and interesting characters we’ve come across in years, Mickey Haller breathes life—exciting, real, moral and pulsing life– into legal procedurals. Mickey Haller turns the legal procedural on its head. In his new case, Haller defends a woman accused of murdering a banker who was going to foreclose on her home. She sounds guilty, and all of the evidence makes it sound like she’ll be spending the rest of her life on a chain gang. Mickey’s unorthodox team pitches in, including his new young associate, who’s known as “Bullocks,” because she is a recent graduate of Southwestern Law School, now housed in the former elegant department store. With any Mickey Haller book, as with any Michael Connelly novel, it’s not just the storyline that makes reading it one of the best pursuits we can have—it’s a combination of character complexity, driving action and a totally thrilling moral twist that gives these books their heartbeat. The Fifth Witness is, literally, stunning.
The Fifth Witness is the newest Mickey Haller case, but we got to know Haller in Connelly’s great book, The Lincoln Lawyer. John Romano, a screenwriter and literary critic, turned The Lincoln Lawyer into a film, to be released in late March. He’s also one of the writers of Intolerable Cruelty, a really funny Coen Brothers film with George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones. He’s seen his way around a television courtroom with writing credits on The Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law, in addition to many others.
You know you’re desperate for another Michael Connelly novel when you’re walking on a city street, see a Lincoln Town Car, in a town full of Lincoln Town Cars, and wonder if perhaps itinerant attorney Mickey Haller is conducting his law practice inside the car. You know you’re desperate for that new Michael Connelly novel when you just assume that Mickey Haller is on his way to or from trouble or dodging a bullet, or perhaps just preparing a brief. But wait! If trouble is in store, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch ought to know about it!
Relief is coming your way. Michael Connelly’s new book, The Fifth Witness, features Mickey Haller, otherwise known as The Lincoln Lawyer. One of the most thrilling and interesting characters we’ve come across in years, Mickey Haller breathes life—exciting, real, moral and pulsing life– into legal procedurals. Mickey Haller turns the legal procedural on its head. In his new case, Haller defends a woman accused of murdering a banker who was going to foreclose on her home. She sounds guilty, and all of the evidence makes it sound like she’ll be spending the rest of her life on a chain gang. Mickey’s unorthodox team pitches in, including his new young associate, who’s known as “Bullocks,” because she is a recent graduate of Southwestern Law School, now housed in the former elegant department store. With any Mickey Haller book, as with any Michael Connelly novel, it’s not just the storyline that makes reading it one of the best pursuits we can have—it’s a combination of character complexity, driving action and a totally thrilling moral twist that gives these books their heartbeat. The Fifth Witness is, literally, stunning.
The Fifth Witness is the newest Mickey Haller case, but we got to know Haller in Connelly’s great book, The Lincoln Lawyer. John Romano, a screenwriter and literary critic, turned The Lincoln Lawyer into a film, to be released in late March. He’s also one of the writers of Intolerable Cruelty, a really funny Coen Brothers film with George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones. He’s seen his way around a television courtroom with writing credits on The Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law, in addition to many others.
