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Michael Connelly · 2005 · US · crime · thriller
Book 1 of 8 in The Lincoln Lawyer
★ 4.23 Goodreads · 266,951 ratings

Mickey Haller, a Los Angeles defence lawyer who works out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car, lands a rich client accused of assault and starts to suspect the man is guilty of far worse, including a crime one of Haller's old clients went to prison for.

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12 books for readers of The Lincoln Lawyer

Thirteen

Steve Cavanagh · 2018 · UK 98% match ★ 4.20 Goodreads · 133,124 ratings
shares: lawyer, legal, courtroom · fast-paced, intricate plot

Eddie Flynn, a con man turned New York defence lawyer, joins the team defending Robert Solomon, a young film star charged with murdering his wife, without knowing that the real killer has got himself onto the jury.

Presumed Innocent

Scott Turow · 1987 · US 96% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 128,953 ratings
shares: lawyer, legal, courtroom · intricate plot, suspenseful

Rusty Sabich, chief deputy prosecutor in a Midwestern county, is put in charge of investigating the murder of a colleague with whom he once had an affair, and soon finds himself charged with the crime.

The Perfect Marriage

Jeneva Rose · 2020 · US 96% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 1,314,711 ratings
shares: lawyer, legal, courtroom · fast-paced, suspenseful

Sarah Morgan, one of Washington's star defence attorneys, takes the hardest case of her career when her husband Adam, a struggling writer, is charged with murdering the woman he had been seeing at their lake house.

The Firm

John Grisham · 1991 · US 96% match ★ 4.07 Goodreads · 640,518 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Firm
shares: lawyer, legal, cat and mouse · easy read, plain prose

Mitch McDeere, near the top of his class at Harvard Law, accepts an offer too good to refuse from a small, rich Memphis tax firm, and learns that no lawyer has ever left it alive.

Cimarron Rose

James Lee Burke · 1997 · US 96% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 4,961 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Billy Bob Holland
shares: lawyer, legal · intimate, suspenseful

Billy Bob Holland, a former Texas Ranger turned defence lawyer, haunted by the partner he killed by accident, defends a teenage boy accused of murder who is his own illegitimate son.

Absolute Power

David Baldacci · 1996 · US 94% match ★ 4.21 Goodreads · 117,119 ratings
shares: lawyer, cat and mouse, legal · suspenseful, plain prose

Luther Whitney, an ageing master burglar, is hiding in the vault of a billionaire's Virginia mansion when he watches the President of the United States and his Secret Service agents take part in a woman's death, and then finds himself hunted for what he saw.

A Time to Kill

John Grisham · 1989 · US 94% match ★ 4.13 Goodreads · 835,218 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Jake Brigance
shares: legal, courtroom · easy read, suspenseful

A small-town Mississippi lawyer takes the case of a black father who killed the two white men who raped his daughter, and the Klan starts showing up in the parking lot.

Black Water Rising

Attica Locke · 2009 · US 94% match ★ 3.57 Goodreads · 8,913 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Jay Porter
shares: lawyer, legal · intricate plot, suspenseful

In 1981 Jay Porter, a struggling Black lawyer in Houston who was once a student radical, takes his pregnant wife on a cheap birthday boat ride on the bayou, hears gunshots, and pulls a white woman out of the water.

The Long Goodbye

Raymond Chandler · 1953 · US 94% match ★ 4.17 Hardcover · 126 ratings
Book 6 of 8 in Philip Marlowe
shares: cynical, Los Angeles · intricate plot, suspenseful

Philip Marlowe befriends Terry Lennox, a scarred, polite drunk married to a millionaire's daughter, and when Terry asks for a ride to Tijuana, Marlowe is drawn into a case that reaches deep into Los Angeles money and power.

The House Gun

Nadine Gordimer · 1998 · South Africa 94% match ★ 3.55 Goodreads · 1,581 ratings
shares: lawyer, legal, courtroom · cold, intimate

Harald and Claudia Lindgard, a comfortable white couple in post-apartheid Johannesburg, learn that their son has been arrested for murder.

The Black Echo

Michael Connelly · 1992 · US 94% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 224,096 ratings
Book 1 of 25 in Harry Bosch
shares: Los Angeles · intricate plot, suspenseful

LAPD detective Harry Bosch recognises the body found in a drainage pipe near the Mulholland Dam as Billy Meadows, who fought beside him as a tunnel rat in Vietnam, and the case leads to a bank vault robbed from below the city and an uneasy partnership with FBI agent Eleanor Wish.

The Judas Window

Carter Dickson · 1938 · US 93% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 1,140 ratings
shares: legal, courtroom · low-key, intimate

James Answell is found unconscious in a locked study beside the body of his prospective father-in-law, shot through with an arrow, and Sir Henry Merrivale has to prove at the Old Bailey that he didn't do it.