Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
Doubleday Large Print (2011), Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Description
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too, and he's certain he's on the right trail.
Media reviews
With The Fifth Witness it’s beginning to seem that Connelly can do no wrong. This latest novel is as shamelessly entertaining as its predecessors, with the customary skilful plotting even more burnished.
As well as making some telling points about the world we live in this is a reminder that in
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the crime fiction stakes Connelly is comfortably in the upper bracket. Show Less
“With me, it’s don’t ask, don’t tell,” Mickey tells the starry-eyed Bullock, who wonders why this junkyard dog never asks his client if she’s innocent. Though the answer isn’t as mysterious as you might like, the courtroom scenes—thrust, parry, struggle for every possible
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advantage—are grueling enough for the most exacting connoisseur of legal intrigue. Show Less
Awards
Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction (Winner — 2012)
Original publication date
2011-04-05