{"id":3278,"date":"2023-05-16T12:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2024-11-25T14:09:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T20:09:17","slug":"the-brass-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3278","title":{"rendered":"The Brass Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lincoln Lawyer Series, Book 2, by Michael Connelly, 2008, Audiobook narrated by Peter Giles, Hachette Audio <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually the second book in a series isn&#8217;t quite as good as the first one.  I didn&#8217;t find that to be the case.  The book is about a high-roller movie producer who is accused of murdering his wife and lover.  When the lawyer who is defending him is killed, Haller is called in as his replacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book, like the first one, has a lot of detail and information about how the justice system works.  There are a quite a few characters who are not totally on the up-and-up. Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer, is also flawed, but not so much that you can&#8217;t root for him to succeed. He makes some mistakes and overlooks some obvious clues, but manages to recover just enough to bring his cases to a favorable outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book has a couple of twists at the end that I must admit I wasn&#8217;t expecting.  Sometimes I can sense who the real perpetrator is, but in this novel I was completely surprised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Giles does a good job of narrating.  He changes his voice just enough to differentiate one character from another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lincoln Lawyer Series, Book 2, by Michael Connelly, 2008, Audiobook narrated by Peter Giles, Hachette Audio Usually the second book in a series isn&#8217;t quite as good as the first one. I didn&#8217;t find that to be the case. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3278\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,36],"class_list":["post-3278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}