The Proving Ground

Michael Connelly

Little, Brown and Company, 400 pages, $42

The wildly prolific Michael Connelly returns with his 41st book of fiction, his eighth featuring Mickey Haller, the defiant and headstrong attorney known as the Lincoln Lawyer (so called because he used his boat-sized Lincoln Navigator as an office early in his career). What is so astounding about a writer with such a prodigious output (this one is his second new book this year, following the stand-alone “Nightshade” ) is that he can remain so consistently strong. Indeed, “The Proving Ground” is one of Connelly’s best books in recent memory.

No longer working as a criminal defence attorney, Haller is now taking civil cases. His latest client is the mother of a teen girl whose ex-boyfriend gunned her dow

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