Mickey thought he’d persuaded Gloria to get out of the life and move to Hawaii, but she’d secretly returned to L.A. “Glory Days,” a pro-bono client for whom Mickey made a quick courthouse deal years earlier in exchange for her rolling on a Mexican drug dealer. Ironically, La Cosse engages Mickey based on praise from the victim, whom Mickey knew as Gloria Dayton, a.k.a.
Mickey’s run for prosecutorial glory didn’t go so well, thanks to the publicity backlash from the deaths of a mother and daughter at the hands of another of Mickey’s acquitted clients.īut now a different kind of glory awaits - defending “digital pimp” Andre La Cosse, who’s accused of murdering Giselle Dallinger, a prostitute whose social media “appointments” he managed.
“The Gods of Guilt” opens after the election with Mickey back in the courtroom but as a defense attorney. The fallout from that case helped Mickey decide to change his life by running for district attorney. When last seen in 2011’s “The Fifth Witness,” Mickey had scored a big acquittal for a client accused of murdering a banker she blamed for foreclosing on her home. In “The Gods of Guilt,” Connelly’s fifth outing with Mickey, he delivers another heart-pounding walk on the other side of the mean streets Bosch patrols so vigilantly, while painting a deeper, more nuanced picture of Haller and his legal team.
Lucky for readers that Connelly has been working the night shift. But keeping Mickey rolling in the back of his Lincoln Town Car/office meant Connelly had to do double duty, researching and plotting Mickey’s adventures while keeping his other hero, Harry Bosch, in play at the LAPD. debuted in Michael Connelly’s “The Lincoln Lawyer” in 2005, he firmly established himself among the pack of legal eagles popularized by Scott Turow, John Grisham and Linda Fairstein.
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