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The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller) · Book 8

The Proving Ground

by Michael Connelly

Published
21 October 2025
Pages
398
ISBN-13
9780316563826
Type
novel

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About this book

The Proving Ground, written by Michael Connelly, is number 8 in The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller) series, published on October 21, 2025. It is currently the newest book in the series. It runs 398 pages.

Its place in The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller)

The Proving Ground is book 8 in the The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller) series. It follows Resurrection Walk. See the full The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller) reading order.

Mickey Haller is a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who works out of the back seat of a chauffeured Lincoln Town Car, hustling between courthouses from Van Nuys to Compton. The son of a famous defense lawyer he barely knew — and half-brother, as the series reveals, of LAPD detective Harry Bosch — Haller is a self-described legal gunslinger: cynical about the system, devoted to working its angles, and haunted by the defense attorney's nightmare of failing to recognize a truly innocent client. Around him…

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