The Lincoln Lawyer (last nine pages)

First, Detectives Lankford and Sobel come over and arrest Roulet for the murder of Martha Renteria. Mickey is scared because he thinks that the cops don't have enough evidence to convict Roulet unless they get a confession out of Louis.

After 12 hours in a confession room with officers drilling a confession out of Roulet, they find out that they cannot hold him any longer. They let Louis go, freaking out Mickey. He has Val watch him on his ankle tracking device. While this is going on, Mickey calls Maggie to tell her to get home and get Hayley and get the heck out of town. She hurries home, but while packing up Hayley's bag, Val calls back saying that Louis just turned onto Maggie's street. Mickey begins freaking out, thinking that he has caused his ex-wife and daughter's death.

Mickey hangs up the phone and runs for the door so that he can drive over to at least try to save Hayley and Maggie. He knows that he can't get there in time, but he doesn't want to just sit at home while his world comes crashing down. Mickey opens the door, and bang. He falls to the ground with a bullet in his stomach. He can barely move as he looks up and sees who it is, it wasn't Louis, it was his Louis' mother, mary Windsor. He reaches for the inside of his coat which holds a pistol he borrowed from his driver Earl.

Mary moves in closer and points the gun at Mickey's face. He puts his arms up as a surrender sign with one of his arms behind the coat he is also holding up. Bang.

Mary falls to ground, Mickey hit her in the head. He hears foot steps coming up the door and a familiar female voice. Detective Heidi Sobel entered the room. Apparenly, her and Lankford had been keeping an eye on Mickey. As he is laying on the ground he mumbles Hayley, that's when Sobel tells him the truth. The whole time Maggie had been lying to him. She had to make it believable; therefore, she couldn't tell Mickey in advance that her and Hayley were safe. It was all a trick because Mary and Louis had tapped into his phone lines.

Sobel and Mickey come to the conclusion that Mary had been the one that killed Levin. Louis hadn't pulled off some magic trick with the bracelt, his mom did the dirty work. She had never been raped, it was all just a trick to cover up the many lies and murders that Louis had commited. As the book wraps up, Mickey falls asleep, but not to worry he was fine. Three surgeries later and a conviction of two murders and one attempted murder on Louis Roulet, Mickey gets back to work after a sebaticle.

Response: I have never read anything like that before in my entire life. This book was amazing, so many twists and turns....it was awesome. But the last nine pages were pure genious. After I finished it I just looked up and said, "what just happened?". It was so good I re-read those last pages 4 times.