![]() ![]() It seemed as though nobody had money to pay any lawyer,” he tells us, explaining why - with his bills to pay, an estranged wife, and a 14-year-old daughter who fancies going to USC - he’s been forced to mine one of the few growth industries in contemporary law: foreclosure defense. But paying customers were few and far between. In Los Angeles, crime marched through any economy. ![]() “Criminal defense had virtually dried up in the down economy. “The Fifth Witness” opens with Haller having it rough. Haller (recently portrayed by Matthew McConaughey in the movie “The Lincoln Lawyer”) has given Connelly’s career an adrenaline boost (not that it really needed one) and introduced a rich, new narrative seam: the courtroom drama, a genre custom-made for Connelly’s gifts of character observation and unobtrusive yet driving story development. Michael Connelly’s richly entertaining new novel, “The Fifth Witness,” features defense attorney Mickey Haller, who operates out of the big armor-plated Lincoln he acquired from some lowlife in lieu of a fee and who seems, for the moment, to have replaced detective Harry Bosch as this immensely successful writer’s go-to narrative guy. ![]()
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