This is vastly superior stuff, from America's greatest living crime writer (DAILY MIRROR)Connelly masterfully manages to marry an absorbing courtroom drama with a tense and exciting thriller of detection (THE TIMES)As exciting as anything this formidable writer has ever produced (DAILY MAIL)No one writes a better modern thriller than Connelly (TIME OUT)Connelly is a crime writing genius (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)Impossible to put down (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

A blistering courtroom drama featuring The Lincoln Lawyer's Mickey Haller from the master of the genre.

In tough times, crime is one of the few things that still pays, but even criminals are having to make cutbacks. So for defence lawyer Mickey Haller, most of his new business is not about keeping people out of jail; it's about keeping a roof over their heads as the foreclosure business is booming.

Lisa Trammel has been a client of Mickey's for eight months, and so far he's stopped the bank from taking her house. But now the bank's CEO has been found beaten to death - and Lisa is about to be indicted for murder . . .