'The Brass Verdict,' by Michael Connelly

"I DON'T know where I will go or what cases will be mine," said Mickey Haller at the end of Michael Connelly's 2005 bestseller "The Lincoln Lawyer." Haller -- a defense attorney who worked Los Angeles County courthouses out of the back of three Lincoln Town Cars -- had solved the mystery and been gut-shot for his pains. "I just know I will be healed and ready to stand once again in the world without truth."

By Richard Rayner

October 13, 2008