Michael connelly the fifth witness review

I didn’t like how this one felt very didactic. I’m afraid my disappointment extended to Connelly as well as narrator Giles. There may even be mob involvement: is Lisa being set up?

But he returns to his roots as a criminal defense attorney when one of his home foreclosure clients, Lisa Trammel, is accused of the murder of a big-time banker involved in foreclosing on her home.

Quick synopsis: Attorney Mickey Haller has picked up home foreclosure cases (civil) to fill out his business. Peter Giles’ narration was so heavy and serious it weighed down the story and its potential humor. This was a good way to fit it into my somewhat busy print-reading schedule (I’m working on two clunksters, Newspaper Titan and Don Quixote), but there was a drawback: I had a real problem with this narrator, and I fear that it effected my reception of the whole book, sadly. Finally got around to Michael Connelly’s latest via audiobook.