Answer: a snazzy silk suit. Question: What does a shrewd defendant wear to court?

Aside from a cheesy clip-on tie, Mickey Haller chooses the right wardrobe when he goes up on a bogus murder charge in Michael Connelly’s new legal mystery, THE LAW OF INNOCENCE (Little, Brown, 423 pp., $29). Buoyed by the slick duds and his brainy patter, the so-called Lincoln Lawyer (who indeed does most of his work and lives much of his life in the back seat of his Town Car) turns in another dazzling courtroom performance. The twist is that Haller is defending himself against the allegation that he murdered a small-time crook and stuffed the corpse into the trunk of his car.