The Fifth Witness

The Fifth Witness
Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2011-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316069388

In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, after taking on a foreclosure case, defense attorney Mickey Haller fights to prove his client’s innocence—but first he must follow a trail of black market evidence to its sinister end. Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too -- and he's certain he's on the right trail. Despite the danger and uncertainty, Haller mounts the best defense of his career in a trial where the last surprise comes after the verdict is in. Connelly proves again why he "may very well be the best novelist working in the United States today" (San Francisco Chronicle).

The Lincoln Lawyer

The Lincoln Lawyer
Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2013
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1743317883

Introducing Mickey Haller, 'The Lincoln Lawyer': a blistering tale about a cynical defence attorney whose one remaining spark of integrity may cost him his life.

The Reversal

The Reversal
Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2013
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1743317786

With the odds and the evidence against them, Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller must nail a sadistic killer once and for all.

The Brass Verdict

The Brass Verdict
Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2008-10-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316040169

INSPIRATION FOR THE ORIGINAL SERIES THE LINCOLN LAWYER – THE #1 TV SHOW ON NETFLIX Defense attorney Mickey Haller and Detective Harry Bosch must either work together or die as they investigate a Hollywood lawyer's murder in this "epic page-turner" (Library Journal). Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent's killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realize their only choice is to work together.

The Gods of Guilt

The Gods of Guilt
Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2013-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1409134369

The 'Lincoln Lawyer' grapples with a haunting case in a gripping thriller from bestselling author Michael Connelly. Mickey Haller gets the text 'Call me ASAP - 187', and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Suddenly, Mickey's not just trying to get his client off a murder charge, but there is a more personal connection: the victim was Gloria Dayton - his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow. Far from saving her, Haller may have been her downfall. Haunted by the ghosts of his own past, and with his own guilt or redemption on the line, he desperately needs to find out who Gloria really was and who, ultimately, was responsible for her death.

A Bright and Guilty Place

A Bright and Guilty Place
Author: Richard Rayner
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400033586

Best Book of the Year The Los Angeles Times • The Washington Post Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, and celebrity scandals. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor in the pocket of the syndicates and a DA taking bribes to throw trials. In A Bright and Guilty Place, Richard Rayner narrates the entwined lives of two men, Dave Clark and Leslie White, who were caught up in the crimes, murders, and swindles of the day. Over a few transformative years, as the boom times shaded into the Depression, the adventures of Clark and White would inspire pulp fiction and replace L.A.’s reckless optimism with a new cynicism. Together, theirs is the tale of how the city of sunshine went noir.

The Law of Innocence

The Law of Innocence
Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1761060236

When defence attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, the body of a client is discovered in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is charged with murder and can't make the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge. Haller knows he's been framed and elects to defend himself. But it isn't easy to build a defence from a cell in the Twin Towers Jail in downtown Los Angeles - as an officer of the court he is an instant target. With the help of a handpicked team, including his half-brother Harry Bosch, Mickey races time to figure out who has plotted to destroy his life and why. And then he must go before a judge and jury to prove his own innocence. In his highest stakes case yet, Mickey Haller fights for his life and shows why he is 'a worthy colleague of Atticus Finch . . . the front of the pack in the legal thriller game' (Los Angeles Times). 'This is unmatched crime writing at its summit' -The Australian 'The Raymond Chandler of this generation' -Associated Press

Witness

Witness
Author: Karen Hesse
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2001
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780439272001

The characters in a Vermont town, both adult and children, tell from their perspectives the effect that the Ku Klux Klan has in the town.

Standing up for Justice

Standing up for Justice
Author: Walter Williams Jr.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1463437420

Standing Up For Justice is about a fourteen-year-old boy who had come from Chicago to Mississippi to visit an uncle in 1955. After making a pass at a white woman, the black youth was brutally beaten, then shot. His murder and subsequent trial tell the story of how African American witnesses were courageous enough to tell the truth about what they knew of the kidnapping and killing. The murder trial also graphically exposes the ugly horrors of racism in the South.