The Law of Innocence

De: Michael Connelly

Narrado por: Peter Giles

INSPIRATION FOR THE ORIGINAL SERIES THE LINCOLN LAWYER—COMING SOON TO NETFLIX

Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is back on the job in this heart-stopping thriller from a renowned #1 New York Times bestselling author.

“One of the finest legal thrillers of the last decade” —Associated Press

On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is immediately charged with murder but can’t post the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge.

Mickey elects to represent himself and is forced to mount his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles. All the while he needs to look over his shoulder—as an officer of the court he is an instant target, and he makes few friends when he reveals a corruption plot within the jail.

But the bigger plot is the one against him. Haller knows he’s been framed, whether by a new enemy or an old one. As his trusted team, including his half-brother, Harry Bosch, investigates, Haller must use all his skills in the courtroom to counter the damning evidence against him.

Even if he can obtain a not-guilty verdict, Mickey understands that it won’t be enough. In order to be truly exonerated, he must find out who really committed the murder and why. That is the law of innocence.

In his highest stakes case yet, the Lincoln Lawyer fights for his life and proves again why he is “a worthy colleague of Atticus Finch . . . in the front of the pack in the legal thriller game” (Los Angeles Times).

A CBS The Doctors Book Club Pick
A People Book of the Week Selection

©2020 Michael Connelly (P)2020 Little, Brown & Company

Reseñas de la Crítica

“The so-called Lincoln Lawyer... turns in another dazzling courtroom performance."—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

“If you’re not already addicted to Mickey, his ex-wives and his brilliant half brother, investigator Harry Bosch, this perfectly constructed legal thriller will get you there.”—People (Book of the Week)

“One of the finest legal thrillers of the last decade… Connelly’s novels have long been distinguished by his mastery of the complexities of the justice system including an ability to get police and courtroom procedures exactly right.”—Bruce DeSilva, Associated Press

A little disappointed

I really enjoyed this book but did not like the political references. The Bosch and Heller series are my favorite. I listen to books to get away from all the political opinions that are everywhere. I want to be entertained not persuaded in a political view.

Thou dost protest too much

Other reviewers have hammered the author for “anti-trump” references. There was only one of any significance and it in no way detracted from the story. Even Fictional characters are entitled to their opinion and their beliefs. If I had to agree with every character I read about I would probably give up reading.

That being said the story was excellent. I like that Old familiar characters were included.

Best Lincoln Lawyer yet.

I loved this book so much. It was wonderful how Mr. Connelly was able to weave in characters from Micky's past to help him through the trial of his life. This book really made an impact in the world of Hollar/Bosch.

Great book but...

One of Connelly's better books. would have given 5 stars but for the unnecessary attacks against Trump, Republicans, and Fox News. I am not a Republican or conservative so this comment is unbiased. But the attacks neither advanced the story nor were productive and did not need to be included but are there just to tell the audience that Connelly does not like them. because of this what would have been a 5 star review was dropped to a 4 star review.

A “page turner”

Like all Mickey Haller novels this one was a great story. I was listening in all my spare time. Contrary to some of the other reviewer ‘s, I appreciated the authors expression of his political views and his willingness to give up a few readers (or listeners) as a consequence of expressing those views. There were a few legal errors in the story they did not make it less enjoyable. If you like Mickey Haller stories, you should definitely listen to this one.

better than reviews advertised

Seeing other people's negative comments about this book referring to 2020 almost made me walk away from it. It ended up being a good book. The excerpts about Trump & covid gave the story a dose of the reality that we're currently living in. Stay safe & 😷 on.

Listen to this Book!!!

Wow! Mr. Connelly is already a favorite. With three cops in the family, I really appreciate his real life detective advisors. It's very seldom that anything in his books seems a stretch of legal or law enforcement practices. I've never done a Bosch or Haller book that I didn't enjoy but every once in a while Mr. Connelly spins up a dandy and this is a one.

Mr. Giles performance is, as usual, spot on and adds to the drama.

Nice work to all involved in this production. For a few days, no matter what I was doing, I couldn't wait to get back to the story.

Maybe Hollywo... er Amazon or Netflix will take notice and make a production of it.

Pretty Good Book but

Favorite characters but dotted with political sniping about President Trump took it down towards a personal soap
box. I'm too weary of political carping. Didn't want to find it in my favorite author's book.

Great Story, Stop with the Politics

Really enjoyed this story, but adding politics nearly ruined an otherwise intriguing, engaging, and enjoyable story.

Vintage Connelly

Edit (for emphasis): I find the "Just Dribble the ball Le Bron" reviews here quite offensive. Why are all of you being so insulting to the 81 million of us who rejected the past four years of incompetence and intransigence by taking one character's pov and turning it into something so mind blowing you cannot understand how someone, let alone 81 million of us might feel that way, let alone a liberal leaning lawyer in liberal leaning Los Angeles? Talk about the cult of personality--you folks are worse than religious extremists. There is almost nothing in this novel beyond a few sentences that make any hash out of politics. Have any of you read the novels of John Grisham? Now there is a liberal. In The Law of Innocence, there wasn't for example a long and detailed diatribe about how our previous President bungled the first two months of the Covid pandemic and that along with his feckless policies and administration cost hundreds of thousands of American lives. That might have been a political diatribe. Simply that from this one lawyer's perspective a follower of Donald Trump might not bring about a jury decision he was interested in getting. (End Edit)

No one in the states does this kind of thing better than Michael Connelly. And this is one of his better go's. I am a tough rater, saving 5 stars for grand literary pieces, But this is an excellent and entertaining legal thriller, neither just another grocery store or airport book shelf pot boiler, nor in any way the kind of high brow that it for one second plods. Simply Connelly, Mickey Haller iteration, a good listen.

In re some people's objection to a character having a pov about Donald Trump, particularly someone living in Los Angeles having a particular POV about Donald Trump, or injecting a reaction to the Covid 19 pandemic in its initial stages in the US, what is there to say? In my neck of the woods, small town Texas, aka "Trump Country," someone having a Trump sticker on their bumper would distinctly tell a local lawyer something as well about the car's owner, something he or she might find agreeable. We just had an election in which the largest number of Americans voted in our history. Everyone in the United States has an opinion about Donald Trump and what that might say about someone's open advocacy of President Trump or the lack thereof. Everyone has been touched by the pandemic.

This is a far less, not in the ballpark, political novel than all of Grisham's early best sellers; a fundamental trope of almost all these kinds of genre novels contain a love/hate relationship with the administration of justice field, and methinks those who do not like what Connelly's characters have to say, almost entirely in passing and presented in the distant background when done so, are being a bit thin skinned and protest too much.