February 15, 2013, Mannering Park, NSW, Australia
Paperback 2011, 421 pages.
First, the protagonist Mickey Haller is called the Lincoln
Lawyer because he works out from a Lincoln town car. Although for this case he rents an office so
he can be close to the courthouse.
Lisa Trammel, whose has retained Haller in a foreclosure
battle with the bank, is accused of murdering someone in the bank. Haller initial doubts about his clients claim
of innocence eventually dissipated as the case moves forward. Despite the DNA evidence obtained by the
prosecution, Haller wins his case by putting up an alternate theory that the murder
is a gang-related hit. He puts on a
fifth witness who eventually pleads the fifth, thus generating reasonable doubt
that gets Lisa Trammel acquitted. At the
celebration party afterwards, Haller realizes how his client actually used
balloons to get the victim to look up and then murdered him. The client is arrested again after the police
discovers the buried body of her husband in her yard.
I would rate this book average. It hangs together by-and-large, although at
the end the reader is left with: so I spent hours reading this book to get to
this? To me it was a page turner, not
because of the suspense, but because of the desire to get it over with. Some of the twists and turns are quite clever,
but not delivered in such a way that I would consider thrilling.
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