In 1986, he and two other reporters spent several months interviewing survivors of a major airline crash. In Fort Lauderdale he wrote about police and crime during the height of the murder and violence wave that rolled over South Florida during the so-called cocaine wars.

Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing - a curriculum in which one of his teachers was novelist Harry Crews.Īfter graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, primarily specializing in the crime beat.

Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads' database with this name. Together, these three exhilarating, fiercely paced novels show that 'Connelly is a master.once he has you on board, turning pages, you won't want to climb off' ( Boston Globe). With their key witness missing, and the odds and evidence against them, Bosch and Haller must nail a sadistic killer before he kills again. Convinced Jessup is guilty, Haller brings in Harry Bosch as his investigator. Mickey is recruited to prosecute the high-profile retrial of Jason Jessup, a convicted child killer, exonerated after twenty-four years by new DNA evidence. As danger quickly mounts, these two loners realize that their only chance is to work together. Enter LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, who will do whatever it takes to crack the case, including using Mickey as bait. Haller scrambles to prepare for trial, and learns that the killer may be coming for him next.

When a former colleague is murdered, Mickey inherits his biggest case yet: defending a Hollywood producer accused of killing his wife and her lover. For a lawyer who has always gone for the easy score, getting justice means risking everything. When he gets hired by a Beverly Hills rich boy arrested for assault, Mickey sees a franchise case: a long, expensive trial with maximum billable hours-until it puts him face-to-face with pure evil and with a man who may truly be innocent. For the first time in one volume, the three novels that introduced the Lincoln Lawyer, Mickey Haller, who learns that 'There is no client as scary as an innocent man.'įor Mickey Haller, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it's about negotiation and manipulation.

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