John T. Lescroart
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 19
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Having joined the "dark side" after years spent prosecuting criminals as the San Francisco DA, defense attorney Wes Farrell is experiencing a crisis of faith. How can he in good conscience defend clients whom, in his estimation, are most likely guilty? In his role as DA, Farrell had helped put away Paul Riley, a young man charged for the rape and murder of his then-girlfriend Dana Rush, only for Riley to later be released from his life sentence -...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
"On the evening before Thanksgiving, Hal Chase, a guard in the San Francisco County Jail, drives to the airport to pick up his step-brother for the weekend. When they return, Hal's wife, Katie, has disappeared without a clue. By the time Dismas Hardy hears about this, Katie has been missing for five days. The case strikes close to home because Katie had been seeing Hardy's wife, a marriage counselor. By this time, the original Missing Persons case...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"In "master of the legal thriller" (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart's electrifying new novel, attorney Dismas Hardy is called to defend the least likely suspect of his career: his longtime, trusted assistant who is suddenly being charged as an accessory to murder. Dismas Hardy knows something is amiss with his trusted secretary, Phyllis. Her out-of-character behavior and sudden disappearances concern Hardy, especially when he learns that her convict...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Late one night, a teenage African American foster child named Tanya Morgan plummets to her death from the overpass above San Francisco's Stockton tunnel. But did she fall...or was she pushed? Rushing to produce a convictable suspect in the glare of the media spotlight, homicide inspectors focus their attention on a naive young man named Greg Treadway. Greg is a middle school teacher and he volunteers as a Special Advocate for foster children. At first,...
Author
Series
Wyatt Hunt novels volume 3
Formats
Description
Raised by loving adoptive parents, San Francisco private investigator Wyatt Hunt never had an interest in finding his birth family--until he gets a chilling text message from an unknown number: "How did ur mother die?" The answer is murder, and urged on by curiosity and the mysterious texter, Hunt takes on a case he never knew existed, one that has lain unsolved for decades.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 17
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Dismas Hardy is looking forward to cutting back his work hours and easing into retirement after recovering from two gunshot wounds. He is determined to spend more time with his family and even reconnect with his distant son, Vincent. But Dismas just can't stay away from the courtroom for long and soon he is pulled into an intense family drama with fatal consequences. Grant Carver, the vigorous patriarch of the Carver family and its four-generations...
7) Damage
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
399 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
His career derailed by the vengeful billionaire Curtlee family for his part in convicting one of their number for murder, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky learns that the killer has won a retrial at the same time a star witness has been murdered.
8) The fall
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 16
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
555 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Description
"From "New York Times" bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting new novel of legal suspense featuring Dismas Hardy and his daughter, Rebecca, now grown up and an associate in Hardy's law firm"--
9) The keeper
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 15
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
547 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"On the evening before Thanksgiving, Hal Chase, a guard in the San Francisco County Jail, drives to the airport to pick up his step-brother for the weekend. When they return, Hal's wife, Katie, has disappeared without a clue. By the time Dismas Hardy hears about this, Katie has been missing for five days. The case strikes close to home because Katie had been seeing Hardy's wife, a marriage counselor. By this time, the original Missing Persons case...
10) The Ophelia cut
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 14
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
691 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Defending old friend Moses McGuire against wrongful murder charges involving a man who raped his daughter, attorney Dismas Hardy risks his career when the case threatens to expose old secrets involving him and police lieutenant Abe Glitsky.
11) Fatal: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting standalone novel about the unexpected, shattering, and lethal consequences of a one-night stand on a seemingly happily married couple. Kate loves her life. At forty-four, she's happily married to her kind husband, Ron, blessed with two wonderful children, and has a beautiful home in San Francisco. Everything changes, however, when she and Ron attend a dinner party and meet another...
12) The suspect
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When Dr. Caryn Dryden is found floating dead in her hot tub, her husband becomes the prime suspect. Gina Roake takes the case and feels her client's innocence will be easy to prove since he was at his cabin on Echo Lake that weekend.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 13
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
417 p. ; 25cm.
Description
Dismas Hardy defends Maya Townshend, the beautiful socialite niece of the San Francisco's mayor, who is suspected of killing a charming ex-convict. A compelling and timely legal thriller filled with blackmail, political intrigue, and multiple murder which also features returning characters Abe Glitsky and Wyatt Hunt.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When the body of Dominic Como, one of San Francisco's most high-profile activists--a charismatic man known as much for his expensive suits as his work on a half dozen nonprofit boards--is discovered, P.I. Mickey Dade and P.I. Wyatt Hunt investigate Como's business associate, Alicia Thorpe--young, gorgeous, and the sister of one of Mickey's friends.
15) Sunburn
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xiv, 350 pages ; 19 cm
Description
As the country of Spain prepares for revolution, two couples--a husband and wife bored with the life they have drifted into, and a combative pair that relish every moment in life--find their lives forever changed by the arrival of a young American seeking his missing lover.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2001, ©1999
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 17 cm
Description
In an effort to save his wife, lawyer Dismas Hardy investigates the murder of a woman thrown out of a window. The victim was his wife's friend and she has been jailed for refusing to reveal a secret which the other confided to her.
17) The vig: a novel
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
403 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Assigned to a desk job after recovering from a near-fatal gunshot wound, lieutenant Abe Glitsky becomes involved in the investigation into a murdered family friend when the prime suspect's lawyer turns to him for help, a request that places both of their careers in jeopardy.
19) Hard evidence
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
528 p. ; 18 cm.
Description
When Dismas Hardy, a San Francisco district attorney, takes up the case of a Japanese prostitute accused of murdering a Silicon Valley billionaire, he becomes the target of her powerful clientele and falls for the victim's daughter.
20) Guilt
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
462 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
As chief legal counsel for the archbishop of San Francisco, Mark Dooher could not divorce his wife, therefore he murdered her. So say the police and the novel is the story of his trial, a conflict between a tenacious police detective and the powerful lawyer. By the author of A Certain Justice.