

Lorna Taylor - Haller's manager and ex-wife.Raul Levin - Haller's investigator and colleague in Roulet's case.

Martha Renteria - Menendez's alleged murder victim.Jesus Menendez - Haller's former client.Ted Minton - prosecutor in Roulet's case.Margaret McPherson - Haller's ex-wife, prosecuting attorney.Mickey Haller - criminal defense lawyer.He also conducts much self-examination and acquires some emotional baggage. Haller outmaneuvers Roulet (revealed to be a rapist and murderer) without violating ethical obligations, frees the innocent Menendez, and continues in legal practice. He reconsiders the situation of Jesus Menendez, a former client serving time in San Quentin State Prison after pleading guilty to a similar and mysteriously related crime. Roulet's lies and many surprising revelations change Haller's original case theory. At first, he appears to be innocent and set up by the female "victim". While most of his clients are drug dealers and gangsters, the story focuses on an unusually important case of wealthy Los Angeles realtor Louis Roulet, accused of assault and attempted murder. Moderately successful criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller operates around Los Angeles County out of a Lincoln Town Car (hence the title) driven by a former client working off his legal fees. It was adapted as a 2011 film of the same name, starring Matthew McConaughey. It introduces Los Angeles attorney Mickey Haller, half-brother of Connelly's mainstay character Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. The Lincoln Lawyer is a 2005 novel, the 16th by American crime writer Michael Connelly.
