The downturn in the economy has caused fewer and fewer people to be able to afford high-priced criminal defense lawyers like Mickey Haller. The film of The Lincoln Lawyer, the first Mickey Haller novel, releases in March. The Fifth Witness is a 2011 mystery novel by Michael Connelly, featuring defense lawyer Mickey Haller. While the prose may lack some of the poetic nuance of his early novels, the plot is worthy of a master storyteller. 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. A ton of evidence points to Trammel, but Haller crafts an impressive defense that includes "the fifth witness" of the title. 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. 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. 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. Connelly's compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A.
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