De Netflix-serie The Lincoln Lawyer is gebaseerd op Connelly’s Lincoln-advocaat-serie Advocaat Mickey Haller is terug en bereid om de moeilijkste rechtszaken aan te nemen, waarbij de kans om te winnen één op een miljoen lijkt. Hij stemt in om een vrouw te verdedigen die in de gevangenis zit voor het vermoorden van haar echtgenoot, een politieagent die werkte voor de plaatselijke sheriff. Vier jaar geleden is ze veroordeeld, maar ze houdt nog altijd vast aan haar onschuld. Haller schakelt de hulp in van zijn halfbroer; de gepensioneerde LAPD-detective Harry Bosch. Al snel stuit Bosch op informatie die het politieonderzoek van vier jaar geleden in twijfel trekt. Daarnaast is ook het bureau van de sheriff op zoek naar gerechtigheid voor de moord op een van hun collega’s. Het pad naar de waarheid ligt vol gevaar. Er zijn mensen die niet willen dat de zaak heropend wordt. Ze zullen alles doen om te voorkomen dat Haller en Bosch de ware reden achter de moord ontdekken.
Author
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads' database with this name. See this thread for more information. Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing—a curriculum in which one of his teachers was novelist Harry Crews. After graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, primarily specializing in the crime beat. In Fort Lauderdale he wrote about police and crime during the height of the murder and violence wave that rolled over South Florida during the so-called cocaine wars. In 1986, he and two other reporters spent several months interviewing survivors of a major airline crash. They wrote a magazine story on the crash and the survivors which was later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. The magazine story also moved Connelly into the upper levels of journalism, landing him a job as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, one of the largest papers in the country, and bringing him to the city of which his literary hero, Chandler, had written. After three years on the crime beat in L.A., Connelly began writing his first novel to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. The novel, The Black Echo, based in part on a true crime that had occurred in Los Angeles, was published in 1992 and won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by the Mystery Writers of America. Connelly has followed that up with over 30 more novels. Over eighty million copies of Connelly’s books have sold worldwide and he has been translated into forty-five foreign languages. He has won the Edgar Award, Anthony Award, Macavity Award, Los Angeles Times Best Mystery/Thriller Award, Shamus Award, Dilys Award, Nero Award, Barry Award, Audie Award, Ridley Award, Maltese Falcon Award (Japan), .38 Caliber Award (France), Grand Prix Award (France), Premio Bancarella Award (Italy), and the Pepe Carvalho award (Spain) . Michael was the President of the Mystery Writers of America organization in 2003 and 2004. In addition to his literary work, Michael is one of the producers and writers of the TV show, “Bosch,” which is streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Michael lives with his family in Los Angeles and Tampa, Florida.
