Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Connelly likes to construct titles for his books that can have several meanings, and those two victims are among the "gods of guilt" in this book.Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads' database with this name. His teenage daughter, Hayley, has cut him out of her life after Mickey got a client who had been arrested for DUI out of jail on a technicality - and the client caused another accident in which Hayley's close friend and the friend's mother died.
And as their investigation gets closer to its mark, someone on Mickey's team pays a shocking toll.ĭayton's murder isn't the only death weighing on Mickey's mind. Soon they focus on Dayton's ominous connections to a ruthless Sinaloa cartel drug dealer, Hector Moya, whom Dayton helped put in prison, and to James Marco, a high-powered DEA agent involved in Moya's case. (The nickname "Lincoln lawyer" comes from Mickey's habit of running his practice out of his Lincoln Town Car instead of an office.) Mickey gathers his team to dig into the case: Lorna, his sensible second ex-wife Lorna's current husband, biker and crack investigator Cisco Mickey's promising new associate, Jennifer Aronson and Earl Briggs, his trusted driver. Any hesitation Mickey might have about taking the case is quieted when La Cosse makes his first payment with a gold ingot worth more than $50,000. Dayton was back in Los Angeles working through an online escort service, and the man who wants to hire Mickey to defend him is her pimp, Andre La Cosse, who has been charged with killing her. She had taken the money I gave her and flown off to Hawaii, where she claimed there was a longtime client who wanted to take her in and help her start over."
Dayton last appeared in The Lincoln Lawyer as a repeat client of Mickey's who became a special project of his: "For the last seven years I thought she had gotten away and that I had helped. One of them involves the case at the center of the book's plot, the murder of a prostitute named Gloria Dayton, a.k.a.
In The Gods of Guilt, the fifth novel in the series about him (the first became a movie in 2011), he's grappling with the consequences of his actions in all kinds of ways. The opening pages of The Gods of Guilt find Mickey Haller up to his old tricks - trying to undermine a witness' credibility on the stand and, when that doesn't work, staging a courtroom stunt aimed at getting a mistrial.īut Mickey, whom bestselling author Michael Connelly introduced in The Lincoln Lawyer in 2005, is not just a stereotypical ethics-challenged criminal defense attorney.
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