Tag: Michael Connelly

Favorite Series – Lincoln Lawyer/Mickey Haller by Michael Connelly

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These books about defense attorney Michael Haller set in Los Angeles are part of the bigger Harry Bosch series. I’ve watched the Bosch series on Amazon, but haven’t read the books. I I’ve also watched the Lincoln Lawyer series on Netflix. I’ve loved both of them. There are only 7 books of the Lincoln Lawyer so far and I thought I’d start there. Once I started I couldn’t stop!

This series is addicting if you like courtroom drama. The writing is good and the plotting is stellar. There are twists that you don’t see coming. Mickey Haller flies high in some books and lands low in others, but always manages to land on his feet and right the wrongs that happen in the justice system. I’m cheering him on because he has that bleeding heart, albeit one that needs to pay the bills. I flew through these in a few months time.

That being said, they are part of the larger series, so you aren’t privy to the happenings of those books or the years that went by. In some of the books quite a bit of time had passed and you just had to pick up where it was and know your questions might not be answered.

And the Netflix series, while drawing some storylines from the book, really doesn’t follow it closely. Some of the side characters are considerably different too. I enjoy both print and screen versions so that’s okay.

Considering how much I loved these I probably will start the Bosch series soon and this might get wrapped up in that series. Time will tell.

I think all but the first have been 5 star reads for me.

Lincoln Lawyer #1, Harry Bosch Universe #16

Lincoln Lawyer #2, Harry Bosch Universe #19

Lincoln Lawyer #3, Harry Bosch Universe #22

Lincoln Lawyer #4, Harry Bosch Universe #23

Lincoln Lawyer #5, Harry Bosch Universe #26

Lincoln Lawyer #6, Harry Bosch Universe #35

Lincoln Lawyer #7, Harry Bosch Universe #38

Other series on my Top 100 list.

Free Books for June 09

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Leave a comment, tell me which book you want and I’ll get the book to you for FREE either by mail or personally if I’ll see you soon.  The first one to request each book wins.  Once you’ve ‘won’ the book I can get your shipping address if I need it.  Also, you can come back and get a free book every month if you want. These have all been read a few times, unless stated otherwise.

1. Renascence & Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay– This is a BRAND NEW hardcover for you poetry lovers.  – for Guatami

2. 2009 Frommer’s Portable Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo & Guadalajara – This is just like new, except that pages 86 & 87 is missing.  Would be helpful for anyone planning a trip to the area now or in the future.  for Dino

3. Family Man by Jayne Ann Krentz – paperback that has been read quite a few times.  Need a romance  good for the vacation?  This is for you because you can’t hurt it 🙂 – for Violet

4. The Poet by Michael Connelly – Paperback that has been read a few times.  Also great for vacation reading.  – for Bridget

As always, happy reading!

june 09 free books

The Poet by Michael Connelly

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The PoetFinished 5-13-08, rating 4.5/5, fiction, pub. 1996

“It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are.  We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.”    Chapter 15

This was a great mystery.  A killer was mutilating bodies after he killed them and then once a detective became obsessed with the case the detective was killed too.  This went undiscovered for many years because the detective’s deaths were ruled suicides.  But reporter Jack McEvoy just lost his twin brother and doesn’t want to believe it was suicide so he sets out to prove it wasn’t.

Once Jack convinces his brother’s partner he sets out to see if he can prove it had been done before.  Jack flies to Washington DC to investigate and inadvertantly opens a FBI task force before he can go public with his own story.  Jack then must force his way into the story and begins his whirlwind journey with the FBI.

This book has it all: grief, revenge, love, murder, guilt, and the chase.  If you love mysteries you cannot go wrong with this one.  This will keep you guessing til the end.  I know Connelly has a current mystery series and I bet when I find the time to read one it will be good too!