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Books like The Lincoln Lawyer
The best books like The Lincoln Lawyer are Presumed Innocent, The Firm, and A Time to Kill. 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 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Presumed Innocent
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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.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - The Firm
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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.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - A Time to Kill
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John Grisham · Thriller
In Clanton, Mississippi, two white men rape and nearly kill ten-year-old Tonya Hailey.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - 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.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - In Cold Blood
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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.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Along Came a Spider
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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.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Angels & Demons
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Dan Brown · Thriller
Physicist Leonardo Vetra is found dead at CERN with a symbol burned into his chest: the Illuminati ambigram.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Big Little Lies
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Liane Moriarty · Thriller
Big Little Lies begins with a death at a school trivia night and then spends its entire length working backward to explain how it happened.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Blacklands
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Belinda Bauer · Thriller
Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb lives in the shadow of an unresolved disappearance.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Blindsighted
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Karin Slaughter · Thriller
Blindsighted is Karin Slaughter's debut novel, published in 2001, and the first book in the Grant County series set in fictional Heartsdale, Georgia.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Dark Places
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Gillian Flynn · Thriller
Libby Day survived the Kansas farmhouse massacre that killed her mother and two sisters when she was seven.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Die Trying
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Lee Child · Thriller
Jack Reacher is in the wrong place at the wrong time in Chicago — helping a woman with dry cleaning when she is snatched off the street.
A kindred thriller read.
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Books like The Lincoln Lawyer: quick answers
What are the best books like The Lincoln Lawyer?
The best books like The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly are Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow, The Firm by John Grisham, A Time to Kill by John Grisham, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Lincoln Lawyer, such as criminal defense ethics, guilt hidden in plain sight, law as game.
What should I read after The Lincoln Lawyer?
A natural next read after The Lincoln Lawyer is Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow. A kindred thriller read. Other strong choices are The Firm by John Grisham, A Time to Kill by John Grisham, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson.
What books are similar to The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly?
The Lincoln Lawyer centers on criminal defense ethics, guilt hidden in plain sight, law as game. Books with a similar feel include Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow, The Firm by John Grisham, A Time to Kill by John Grisham, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Along Came a Spider by James Patterson — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
