Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly - book review

 Ever since i started watching the third season of the Lincoln Lawyer, have wanted to read the novels by Michael Connelly, who is the creator of the series. The best part about the series being, not just the legal aspects which are demonstrated in a simplistic manner, but the cleverness behind those arguments and the situations that are setup for those deliberations. Even though the lead character is defence counsel, the author doesn't show any undue bias towards the defence (obviously there has to be some tilt for the hero has to win in the end), but he presents both the sides with good points. The reason for picking this one up, after watching 3 seasons of the show being the cliffhanger ending, where Mick Haller (the lawyer who roams around in his Lincoln car and hence the tag) is arrested by a traffic cop, who also identifies a blood soaked body cramped in the trunk of his car.

This book, begins to describe the "what happened next" portions of the story. The story begins with Mike counselling a prison inmate on his next course of action, making one wonder if he really got arrested. But slowly it dawns that the entire conversation actually happens in a prison and Mike is facing his own trial with his entire team on war footing. It slowly moves towards its eventual conclusion of Mike getting acquitted with what is supposedly a major twist or surprise as to the case getting dropped by the state and Mike being declared not guilty. But the hop-skip-jump with which Mike makes the connection so early in the book and how every clue related to the case falls in his hand automatically with even the FBI helping him out are too convenient as compared to the other cases he handled. Also there is no convincing justification as to why the public prosecutor hates Mike and wants to convict him by any means possible, going overboard with more aggression than needed. If at all this story is picked for season 4, i guess they may pull in some additional lines from his other books possibly for this alone doesn't sound enough to stand on its own for a full series. I've started reading the Lincoln lawyer series as a book and it does make an interesting read, even though it goes overboard at times on what happens in between the conversations. Nice read so far!