The Fifth Witness (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel)

Pub Date :2011-10-1 541 Hachette Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times He expands hisbusiness into foreclosure defense. only to see one of his clientsaccused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take awayher home . Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel. even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his clientis guilty Soon after he learns that the victim had black marketdealings of his own. Haller is assaulted. too -. and hes certainhes on the right trail. Despite the danger and uncertainty. Haller mounts the bestdefense of his career in a trial where the last surprise comesafter the verdict is in. Connelly proves again why he may verywell be the best novelist working in the United States today ( San Francisco Chronicle).