By: Alison Bonaguro - CMT

Michael Connelly is a brilliant writer. His books are the ones that make me lose sleep night after night because I literally cannot put them down. So now that his 2005 bestseller, The Lincoln Lawyer, is being made into a movie with Trace Adkins in a small role, I will be first in line at the theater when it opens. (Not until sometime in 2011, sadly.) The story is about a criminal defense attorney who uses the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car as his Los Angeles office to represent some very heavy hitters and bad guys.

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And I remember from the book that there was a Beverly Hills realtor-by-day and playboy-by-night who was arrested for attacking a woman. Matthew McConaughey plays the lawyer Mickey Haller, while Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe and John Leguizamo are in the cast, too. Adkins has taken the role of the leader in a biker gang. If it's half as exciting as Blood Work, the other Connelly novel that Clint Eastwood made into a film in 2002, I think Adkins chose well when he decided to say yes to this script.