It should have been a great day in the life of attorney Mickey Haller. He had truly had a television Perry Mason style moment that had destroyed a witness and ultimately won his case. The celebration at the Redwood on Second Street had been a fun time for all in attendance.
It was on to
the drive home that things started to go wrong. First it was the traffic stop.
Within a few minutes it was the handcuffs. Then it was the fluid dripping from
the trunk. Then it was the clearly visible dead body inside the trunk.
Halloween 2019 seemingly has come a couple of days early and Mickey Haller is
in for quite a terror filled ride as his entire life is on the line.
Arrested for
a murder he did not commit; Mickey Haller is incarcerated at the Twin Towers Correctional
Facility. To get out of a nearly perfect frame job he is going to not only have
to stay alive in the facility where he has few friends among inmates or staff,
he has to build a credible -- somebody else did it -- style defense. Figuring
out who he knows that could have done this will take time. Something he is in
short supply of since he faces a looming trial and multiple threats including COVID-19.
The
Law of Innocence: A Lincoln Lawyer Novel by Michael Connelly brings together nearly every character currently
and previously present in this series. Haller’s defense that is ultimately
presented in court as COVID-19 begins to draw public attention in early 2020
has numerous links to previous cases. This reader occasionally struggled to
remember those cases before deciding to just read on and focus on the current
story. The resulting read is complicated, intense, and pretty good. Because of
the links in this book will invalidate pretty much any reason to read the
earlier books, I suggest reading your way forward in the series to get to here.
It will be worth it.
The Law of Innocence: A Lincoln Lawyer Novel
Michael Connelly
Little, Brown and Company (Hatchett Book Group)
https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/michael-connelly/the-law-of-innocence/9780316498029/
November 2020
ISBN# 978-0-316-49802-9
eBook (also available in audio, hardback, and large print
paperback)
433 Pages
My reading
copy came in eBook format via the Dallas Library and the LibbyApp and the
technical assistance of my son, Scott, who did some sort of magic to make
things work.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2021
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