Defence lawyer Mickey Haller gets stopped over by the police the same night he celebrates a significant victory, and they discover the body of a previous client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is charged with murder right away but is unable to post the outrageous $5 million bond that a vengeful judge put on him.
Mickey decides to defend himself and is compelled to do it from his incarceration cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in the heart of Los Angeles. As a court officer, he is a target right away, and when he exposes a corruption scheme within the jail, he finds himself constantly having to watch his back.
The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly
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But the scheme against him is more elaborate. Haller is aware that someone, whether a recent foe or an old one, has set him up. Haller must employ all of his talents in the courtroom to refute the devastating evidence against him as his trusty team, which includes his half-brother, Harry Bosch, conducts an investigation.
Mickey is aware that a not-guilty finding won’t be sufficient, even if he can get one. He has to learn who really committed the crime and why in order to be fully cleared. That is the innocent law.
Mickey Haller is an excellent protagonist. This grim tale makes you experience the despair of being imprisoned and possibly facing a life sentence, raising the hair on the back of your neck in the process. It’s riveting when he has the terrible revelation of what he will do if he loses. Since Mickey is the only significant player in town, The Law of Innocence is largely a story about courtroom theatre. It is quite astonishing how well-versed in the law, legal strategy, and courtroom etiquette MC is. Mickey is in excruciating pain. Blood and ballistic evidence were discovered in his garage, along with the body of a former client discovered in the trunk of one of his Lincolns.
He is detained in the Twin Towers after being charged with murder and made to engage in a weakened struggle for his life and freedom. Fortunately, he has a solid group of allies, including his half-brother Harry Bosch and a prison inmate who will guard his back. Harry plays a more significant part than a cameo throughout the book, yet he stays out of the action. This novel is carefully made to focus on friends and family as well as crime and the law. The family aspects (where Mickey works with two ex-wives and is reunited with an ex-girlfriend) are charming and interesting.
