Jack McEvoy, hero of Connelly's breakthrough novel The Poet, returns in this major milestone in crime publishing. Went straight into the Top 10 bestseller list at No. 2. Michael Connelly is a No. 1 bestseller in the US, Ireland, Australia, France and Italy. The Lincoln Lawyer was selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club, guaranteeing an upsurge in Connelly's sales. Movie rights to The Lincoln Lawyer have been sold to Lakeshore Entertainment (producers of the Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby) for a seven-figure sum. Connelly has won or been shortlisted for many awards: his first novel The Black Echo won the Edgar Award; City of Bones won the Anthony Award; Blood Work was nominated for an Edgar; Angels Flight and City Of Bones for the CWA Gold Dagger. Connelly gets consistently brilliant reviews and is seen as one of the leading, if not the leading, American crime writer of his generation. 'Connelly has proved himself the king of US police procedurals, and now his legal books are the equal of John Grisham's' - Independent On Sunday 'While the themes of Connelly's LA crime novels are familiar (power, envy, corruption), his plotting is anything but' - Esquire 'One of Connelly's best ever books, this is an excellently plotted courtroom drama combined with a tense thriller' - Morning Star 'A superb legal thriller that manages three final twists. The labyrinthine workings of LA law, bribery and the machinations of the FBI all play a part in a scenario that soon has Mickey in fear of his life. The first line of The Brass Verdict is 'everybody lies', so there are plenty of surprises. And, of course, as a writer of fiction, Connelly proves to be a brilliant liar' - Evening Standard on The Brass Verdict About The Book Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the LA Times, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of J-school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang - a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honor - a Pulitzer prize. Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. But as Jack delves into the story he soon realises that Alonzo's so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a killer known as The Scarecrow who has worked completely below the police and FBI radar.Jack is soon off and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before - but The Scarecrow knows he's coming.

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