I'm an avid reader of Connelly's Harry Bosch series (and recommend it highly) but when he branched out into this parallel series following defense lawyer Mickey Haller (a walk-on character in the Bosch series) it was a delight. Haller and his office peeps (said "office" being the back seat and trunk of the Lincoln cars in which he travels from courthouse to courthouse) are delightfully complex characters. He hews tightly to the principle that everyone deserves a good defense, and that innocence or guilt aren't the right question. But he is acutely aware of ethical grey areas involved in his work and the consequences they entail. And he sees people (clients, colleagues, opponents) as three dimensional human beings. I like him and look forward to each Lincoln lawyer book in this series.