“To prove true innocence,” Haller explains, “the guilty man must be found and exposed to world.” In his Haller novels, Connelly has always displayed great ability to write courtroom scenes, combining thrust-and-parry exchanges between defense and prosecution with a look at the personal motives driving all the players (including the judge). The rub, however, is that a not-guilty verdict won’t be enough to restore Haller’s reputation in the legal world. A frame, obviously, but who’s behind it and why? Haller assembles his team, including his half-brother Harry Bosch, and attempts to formulate a counterattack. Haller landed in this world-class pickle after he was stopped by a possibly crooked cop, and a body was found in the trunk of his car. Connelly’s first Mickey Haller novel since The Gods of Guilt (2013) finds the brash defense attorney arrested for murder and forced to mount a defense from inside his jail cell.
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