Starred Review. Connelly's compelling fourth legal thriller
featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A.
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. 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. A ton of
evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense
that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. 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. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of
his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. The
film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases
in March. (Apr.)
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