The Lincoln Lawyer

Mickey Haller is such a great low-key guy at the beginning, turning a new case as business as usual and getting stuck slowly into something much hotter.
It was my first Connelly novel, now I'm currently reading "The Closers" and I like --but I'm not finished, Mr Haller much more the Mr Bosch.

Ways of setting the scene in LA when he meets Roulet, Mick's client, are terrific. The real LA lusters out there. The guy's first high paying client of Mick in years, and he's gonna bill him by the hour, what he calls a "franchise case", and it's a big change for him;
I love the others less fortunate clients descriptions, a huge biker, a drug dealer even a credit-card hacker, all of them losers, and GUILTY as hell.
What's really great is that this Beverly hills golden boy he got incidentally will prove to be innocent, at the very end.

For Mick, it will be a very dangerous task to defend him, as the guy is really mean and evil: he will have to fight for his own life in the second half of the book. The end is a blast and very realistic. You get into it and you won't let it down .

Deeply recommanded !