I highly recommend the book “The Lincoln Lawyer” by Michael Connelly. This is my first book by the author Michael Connelly and several years ago I saw the movie with Matthew McConaughey. I picked up the hardcover of this book at a garage sale two years ago, as I liked the movie and I like legal-type thrillers. Now that I finished the book, I can’t believe I left the book sit on my bookshelf until mid April 2020.
I liked the main character in this story, Michael “Mickey” Haller, a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles. The book mentions his use of the Lincoln Town car as an office (in fact he owns three more Lincolns as backups). I think on the point of the “Lincoln” car part, I preferred the movie as I could visually see Matthew (I mean Mickey) conduct his business in the car rather than read about it. I liked the other characters in the story as well, his 1st ex-wife a prosecutor in L.A. and his 2nd ex-wife a type of virtual business assistant for his legal business.
I actually liked the story more than the characters. I felt I was part of the entire case from the start when Mickey first meets his client to the gathering of facts of the case to the courtroom with the jury.
I can honestly say the book “The Lincoln Lawyer” was much better than the movie (other than not being able to visually see Matthew in the Lincoln Town car) and the movie was great. I was surprised to learn that this is the first book in a series of five books with Mickey Haller. I plan to order “The Brass Verdict” from Amazon soon, I will not wait to find this book at a garage sale.
The characters in this book were good, the story line was even better and there are more books in this series, a great combination all around. I also wanted to comment that I plan to read more books by Michael Connelly. I am sad to say it has taken me so long to read one of his books. I plan to make up for this!!!!
Me: I am Diane M. Spolar and I live in Willowbrook, Illinois (a suburb outside of Chicago) with my husband, son and cat. I am a CPA by day and a reader by night and on the weekends. I am a lifelong lover of books.
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