The Gods of Guilt

This is the 6th entry in Michael Connelly's series featuring attorney, Mickey Haller--aka "The Lincoln Lawyer," which became a movie starring Matthew McConaughey. Mickey is still doing business out of his Lincoln Towncar, and being driven around by Earl as an exchange for some legal work Mickey did to help him out. In this story, Mickey is currently estranged from his ex-wife and 16-year old daughter. His daughter holds Mickey responsible for the death of a woman and daughter killed by a drunken driver. Mickey previously got the drunken driver off on a technicality. The widely publicized case also lost Mickey the race for the DA's position. Here, Mickey is contacted by a digital pimp--a man who publishes the web sites for prostitutes and takes a cut of their earnings. He has been charged with murdering one of his clients. The victim, it turns out, was a woman Mickey had been close to; in fact, he thought he had helped her escape "the life" seven years earlier. Still, Mickey thinks this particular client is actually innocent and has been set up by an unscrupulous and ruthless DEA agent. The dead prostitute had helped the DEA agent convict a drug dealer by planting a gun under the mattress before the dealer was busted. The gun allowed the feds to put the dealer in jail for life instead of just a few months or years. The fact that the case is being re-opened means that several people might have had a motive to kill "Glory Days."
This is really well written as are all the Michael Connelly books that I have ever read, and I am actually now interested in going back to read earlier installments in this particular series, as most of what I have read are the Harry Bosch novels. There are a couple of videos about this book on Connelly's web site.