Linda

Fifteen year old schoolboy Michael Berg is recovering from illness and while convalescing goes for a walk which changes his life. He meets Hanna, much older than himself and starts a clandestine affair. He is infatuated with her and his life revolves around her. However, she suddenly disappears and they meet again some years later, he as a law student and she as one of a group of defendants in a war crimes trial. He follows the trial and it transpires that as a camp guard she and her colleagues could have saved the lives of prisoners in a burning church but did not act. ..read more

I first read Kidnapped while at school and since then have read it several times. It is better read with a map of Scotland to hand. It is set in 1751 and, on the surface, is a tale of the adventures of the young David Balfour, who is kidnapped while seeking to claim his inheritance and taken aboard a ship bound for the Carolinas. The ship founders off the west coast of Scotland and David has to make his way back to Edinburgh. This is during the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.

The Lincoln Lawyer is the first book I have read by this author and at first I thought I might not enjoy it but gradually you find yourself thoroughly involved with the business of the lawyer, Mickey Haller who uses his Lincoln car as his office.

The story is set in Los Angeles and Mickey has taken on a new client, but this time it is a wealthy real estate dealer, Louis Ross Roulet, who has found himself in an embarrassing situation and is trying to extricate himself from it.