The Fifth Witness (Little Brown,  4/5/11)  is the fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller, Connelly’s unconventional Los Angeles lawyer whose office is his Lincoln town car.  In this episode he is representing foreclosure client Lisa Trammel, who is suspected of killing her mortgage banker with a hammer.  The courtroom drama is narrated by Heller, so the reader gets a close-up peak into the legal proceedings, as well as the details of foreclosure, and the personalities of all involved–with the customary suspense and intrigue.  The new  movie, The Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughy as Haller will, of course, create huge demand for all of Connelly’s Haller novels.

–posted 5/1/2011