GODS OF GUILT

Defense Attorney Mickey Haller returns with a haunting case. He receives a text, 'Call me ASAP - 187', and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When he learns that the victim was his own former client Gloria Dayton, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow, far from saving her, he may have been her downfall and the one who put her in danger. Haunted by the ghosts of his past he must work tirelessly and bring all his skill to bear on a case that could mean his ultimate redemption or proof of his ultimate guilt. He must find out who Gloria really was and who was responsible for her death. While the themes of Connelly's LA crime novels are familiar - power, envy, corruption - his plotting is anything but. 465pp, paperback.