It turns out that Judge Mary Holder, chief judge of the LA Superior Court, participated in the jury tampering scheme and arranged for Elliot's juror to be selected at a certain time. Dirty Cop: This book features a twist on the usual trope in the person of a Dirty Judge.It's never confirmed, but this sounds a lot like Cassie Black, the Classy Cat-Burglar heroine of Connelly novel Void Moon. The woman talked about the thrill she got when she pulled a job, how the rush was better than the money. As Haller goes through his files preparing for the Elliot trial, he remembers an old client of his, a Classy Cat-Burglar who liked to rob rich dudes in hotel rooms, cracking their safes while they slept.Jack McEvoy, protagonist of The Poet, pops up briefly, doing his Intrepid Reporter thing.Yet another nod to fictional Archway Pictures, which has been mentioned in multiple Connelly books dating back to Trunk Music in 1997.Blasting It Out of Their Hands: It’s not explicitly stated who took the shot, but this happens to McSweeney when Bosch and the FBI interrupt him trying to kill Haller.Bosch and the FBI surveillance team show up in the nick of time to stop him. Big Damn Heroes: McSweeney tries to kill Haller and make it look like a suicide.Elliot insists that Mickey Haller be his only lawyer, because, as Elliot believes, only guilty people have an Army of Lawyers. Army of Lawyers: Discussed and averted.In 2022 Netflix premiered a series, The Lincoln Lawyer, which despite the title is an adaptation of this novel and not the novel The Lincoln Lawyer.

Haller's job is further complicated by the investigation into the Vincent murder, which is being conducted by none other than Michael Connelly's most frequent protagonist, LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch. Haller accepts the challenge but is shocked when Elliot insists on having the trial go forward as scheduled rather than accept a delay so Haller can prepare.

Elliot is due to stand trial in nine days for the murder of his wife and her lover. More importantly for Haller, he has been charged with the responsibility of taking Vincent's caseload.īy far the biggest trial on Vincent's docket is the murder trial of Walter Elliot, a Hollywood movie producer and the head of Archway Pictures.

It seems an old acquaintance of Haller's, Jerry Vincent, has been murdered. He has managed to put his life back together, though, and is suddenly yanked back into the world of criminal law when he receives surprising news. Mickey's recovery from a gunshot wound segued into an addiction to opiate painkillers and he hasn't seen a courtroom in nearly a year. It has been two years since the traumatic Louis Roulet case that was related in The Lincoln Lawyer. The Brass Verdict is a 2008 novel by Michael Connelly, featuring as protagonist the ethically dubious lawyer Mickey Haller.

The brass verdict series