The Proving Ground: An Evening With Michael Connelly

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Tue Oct 28 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

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2153 1st Ave S., Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, Florida 33712 | St. Petersburg, FL

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, the Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl.
Tombolo Books is thrilled to announce our event with bestselling author Michael Connelly for his latest installment in his beloved Lincoln Lawyer series, The Proving Ground!
Connelly will be joined in conversation by two-time Edgar Award winning author Lori Roy!
Fans rejoin Mickey Haller after his "resurrection walk" and in search for new direction. Filled with Connelly's signature taut prose, The Proving Ground hits on the timely, ongoing conversation about the function and dangers of AI in society.
This event will take place at Nova 535 located at 535 Dr M.L.K. Jr St N, St. Petersburg, FL 33701. Drinks will be available for purchase from Nova's bar during the event.
Purchase your tickets here. A confirmation email with more details will be sent to you upon purchase.
Launch Event Two Guests - $52 ticket includes admission to the Launch Event for you and one guest and one signed copy of The Proving Ground.
Launch Event Single Guest - $42 ticket includes one admission to the Launch Event and one signed copy of The Proving Ground.
More about The Proving Ground
Following his “resurrection walk” and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company whose chatbot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it was okay for him to K*ll his ex-girlfriend for her disloyalty.
Representing the victim’s family, Mickey’s case explores the mostly unregulated and exploding AI business and the lack of training guardrails. Along the way he joins up with a journalist named Jack McEvoy, who wants to be a fly on the wall during the trial in order to write a book about it. But Mickey puts him to work going through the mountain of printed discovery materials in the case. McEvoy’s digging ultimate delivers the key witness, a whistleblower who has been too afraid to speak up. The case is fraught with danger because billions are at stake.
It is said that machines became smarter than humans on the day in 1997 that IBM’s Deep Blue defeated chess master Garry Kasparov with a gambit called “the knight’s sacrifice.” Haller will take a similar gambit in court to defeat the mega forces of the AI industry lined up against him and his clients.
Michael Connelly is the author of forty previous novels, among them New York Times bestsellers Nightshade, The Waiting, and Resurrection Walk. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty-nine million copies worldwide. A former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels, Connelly is the executive producer of four television series: Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, The Lincoln Lawyer, and Ballard. He spends his time in California and Florida.
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