Michael ConnellyThe Lincoln Lawyer / AuthorMichael Joseph Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. Wikipedia
Coming not from Grisham, but rather a Michael Connelly book, the movie is in many ways a throwback to the myriad adaptations of Grisham novels that appeared annually throughout the 1990s.
Bestselling author Michael Connelly specializes in detective novels, but with The Lincoln Lawyer series, he dips his toes into the world of legal thrillers.
Check Out More Great Stories. Alas, we can't quite help with that: Mickey Haller is indeed a fictional character, created by author Michael Connelly in the popular novels that inspired the Netflix series.
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Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller are half-brothers in Michael Connelly's books. Harry Bosch made his debut in the 1992 book The Black Echo. More than a decade later, Connelly introduced the Mickey Haller character in The Lincoln Lawyer. Haller is Bosch's half-brother, though the two did not know each other as children.
The Lincoln Lawyer novels follow Mickey Haller, the half-brother of LAPD detective Harry Bosch (played over on Amazon by Titus Welliver) and an iconoclastic idealist who runs his law practice out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, as he takes on cases big and small across the expansive city of Los Angeles.
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Mickey Haller doesn't appear in Amazon's Bosch or its spinoff series, Bosch: Legacy, but the role of Bosch in the narrative of The Lincoln Lawyer as it adapts Michael Connelly's The Brass Verdict has been replaced with other characters in the series.
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.
The 2011 movie starring Matthew McConaughey draws on The Lincoln Lawyer, the first volume of the Mickey Haller series. To make matters slightly more complicated, Mickey Haller's character also appears in several other books Michael penned.
Eventually, Trevor is found not guilty due to Mickey's defense arguing that he simply would not have had enough time to hide his blood stained clothes and the murder weapon in the minutes before the police arrived.