michael connelly the fifth witness review

both cynical and optimistic about the law he believes in the justice system even as he manipulates it. In my review of The Fifth Witness that ran in the Sun Sentinel and other newspapers, I said “Mickey is.

While “in Los Angeles crime marched on through any economy,” Mickey realizes that “the only growth industry in the law business was foreclosure defense.” And Mickey is busier than ever with clients who need help in holding onto their homes. His clients can no longer afford him, so he goes civil. In The Fifth Witness, Mickey is feeling a financial pinch. Both also are single fathers who deeply love their children. While Mickey is decidedly a different kind of lawyer than Atticus Finch, both characters are concerned with doing the right thing and with justice being served. The Fifth Witness brings back Mickey Haller, the “Lincoln Lawyer” who runs his business from the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car. The prize, co-sponsored by The University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal, “celebrates the role of lawyers in society and the ideals represented by Atticus Finch,” according to the press release. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March.Michael Connelly has amassed a number of well-deserved awards, beginning with the 1992 Edgar Award for his debut, The Black Echo.Ĭonnelly’s latest honor is the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, awarded to his novel The Fifth Witness.Ĭonnelly picked up his award last week. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. 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. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes 'the fifth witness' of the title.

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. 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. Connelly's compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A.

Michael connelly the fifth witness review