Books like The Lincoln Lawyer

If you liked The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Defending Jacob

    William Landay · 2012

    Because shares tags: legal thriller, crime, mystery.

    A Newton prosecutor defends his fourteen year old son after a classmate is stabbed in the park.

  2. The It Girl

    Ruth Ware · 2022

    Because shares tags: mystery, crime.

    Ten years after April murder at Oxford, new claims of innocence force pregnant Hannah to rethink friends.

  3. Still Life

    Louise Penny · 2005 · Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1

    Because shares tags: mystery, crime.

    A beloved teacher found with an arrow in Three Pines looks like hunting accident until Gamache looks closer.

  4. All Good People Here

    Ashley Flowers · 2022

    Because shares tags: mystery, crime.

    A journalist returns home to care for her uncle and reopens a 20 year old child murder tied to a new abduction.

  5. The Silkworm

    Robert Galbraith · 2014 · Cormoran Strike #2

    Because shares tags: mystery, crime.

    A missing novelist and a cruel manuscript pull Strike and Robin into London publishing.

  6. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    Agatha Christie · 1926 · Hercule Poirot #4

    Because shares tags: mystery, crime.

    Retired Poirot probes a locked study murder in King's Abbot, told by the village doctor.

  7. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892 · Sherlock Holmes #3

    Because shares tags: crime, mystery.

    Twelve Strand cases from Irene Adler to the Copper Beeches, with Holmes at his sharpest and strangest.

  8. Killing Floor

    Lee Child · 1997 · Jack Reacher #1

    Because shares tags: mystery, crime.

    Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is arrested for murder in Margrave, Georgia, then learns the victim was his brother.

  9. Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom

    Tsugumi Ohba · 2004 · Death Note #1

    Because shares tags: mystery, crime.

    Light Yagami finds a notebook that kills with a written name, and the hidden detective L sets a trap to expose him.

  10. Wrong Place Wrong Time

    Gillian McAllister · 2022

    Because shares tags: mystery, crime.

    Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.

  11. The Outsider

    Stephen King · 2018

    Because shares tags: crime, mystery.

    Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.

  12. The Only One Left

    Riley Sager · 2023

    Because shares tags: mystery, crime.

    Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders.

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