

Mickey works to establish alternative theories behind the case with his two investigators: his ex-wife, Lorna, and her current husband, Dennis, who is nicknamed "Cisco." They discover that Bondurant has ties to various members of organized crime families. The prosecutor of the case is Andrea Freeman, a lawyer against whom Mickey has never won a case. She is a suspect despite the fact that she is much shorter than the 6'2'' Bondurant who was murdered from above with a hammer while standing up.

One of Mickey’s longtime clients, Lisa Trammel, is suspected of murdering the rich Bondurant. Mickey works out of a Lincoln Town Car, as opposed to the office, leads to the nickname "The Lincoln Lawyer" by peers and others. The fact that Mickey frees criminals while McPherson-nicknamed "McFierce"-puts them away was a big factor in their divorce. Mickey has a daughter, Hayley, with McPherson who works in the Los Angeles District Attorney's office as a prosecutor. He has two ex-wives, Maggie McPherson and Lorna Taylor. Mickey is the son of a well-known Los Angeles defense litigator, also named Michael Haller, who died mysteriously when Mickey was around five-years-old. The story follows the murder investigation of a wealthy man Mitchell Bondurant. American author Michael Connelly’s mystery novel The Fifth Witness (2011) is the fourth book in a series starring Michael "Mickey" Haller, a criminal defense attorney based in Los Angeles.
