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Books like The Lincoln Lawyer

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly is about criminal defense ethics, guilt hidden in plain sight, law as game. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Presumed Innocent
    Presumed Innocent

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    Presumed Innocent

    Scott Turow · Thriller

    Rusty Sabich is the chief deputy prosecutor in a fictional Midwestern city, a competent, serious man trusted by his boss and respected by his colleagues.

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  2. The Firm
    The Firm

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    The Firm

    John Grisham · Thriller

    Mitch McDeere is a Harvard Law graduate who accepts a job at a small, lavishly compensating Memphis firm called Bendini, Lambert & Locke.

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  3. A Time to Kill
    A Time to Kill

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    A Time to Kill

    John Grisham · Thriller

    In Clanton, Mississippi, two white men rape and nearly kill ten-year-old Tonya Hailey.

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  4. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
    Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

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    Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

    Bryan Stevenson · Memoir

    Bryan Stevenson's memoir of his career as a capital defense attorney in Alabama, and specifically of his years working on the case of Walter McMillian — a Black man wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Monroe County, Alabama — is simultaneously a riveting legal narrative and a sustained moral argument about the American criminal justice system's treatment of the poor and of Black defendants.

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  5. In Cold Blood
    In Cold Blood

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    In Cold Blood

    Truman Capote · Memoir

    Truman Capote's account of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas — and of the investigation, capture, trial, and execution of the killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock — is the founding document of the true crime genre and one of the most admired works of American nonfiction of the twentieth century.

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  6. Along Came a Spider
    Along Came a Spider

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    Along Came a Spider

    James Patterson · Thriller

    Along Came a Spider introduces Alex Cross, a Black homicide detective and forensic psychologist working in Washington D.C., in the case that made James Patterson a bestseller.

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