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1) The suspect
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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
Wyatt Hunt novels volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wyatt Hunt, newly minted as a private investigator after being fired from his job as a caseworker with San Francisco's Child Protective Services, is enlisted by his friend, homicide inspector Devin Juhle, to join the probe into the murder of a federal judge found shot to death in his home along with his mistress, and the related disappearance of an up-and-coming celebrity commentator.
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (13 hr., 34 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Dismas Hardy is hired by Maya Townshend, a beautiful socialite who owns a San Francisco coffee shop and is the daughter of the city's mayor, after the shop's manager is gunned down outside the store and found with a backpack full of marijuana.
Author
Series
Wyatt Hunt novels volume 2
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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. Hunt's birth father, twice tried but never convicted of the murder, is in...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 14
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Defense attorney Dismas Hardy returns to defend a close friend against murder charges in New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart's most suspenseful and intricately plotted novel to date"--
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 15
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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 10
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Dismas Hardy becomes involved in a case involving the teenage son of a prominent San Francisco family who has been arrested for the murders of his girlfriend and English teacher, while an unseen killer terrorizes the city.
9) The hearing
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 7
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
451 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It looks like a tragic and petty murder-a rising star in San Francisco's legal firmament found shot in a dark alley. But for homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky, the crime cuts horribly close to home- unknown to anyone the victim was his daughter. Seething, Glitsky leans hard on his only suspect-a homeless heroin addict found lingering over his daughter's body, with her jewelry in his pocket and a smoking gun in his hand. The city's embattled, ambitious...
10) The first law
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 9
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
11) Poison: a novel
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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...
12) Damage
Author
Language
English
Description
Detective Glitsky's professional life changed a decade ago as a result of the part he played in the conviction of the Curtlee family heir Ro for rape and murder. He had been reassigned to the payroll office. Now Curtlee had been released following a new trial and tragedies began to befall others who were involved in his conviction.
13) The mercy rule
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 5
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
466 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Attorney Dismas Hardy becomes involved in what could turn out to be his last case when he reluctantly agrees to defend fellow lawyer Graham Russo against a charge that he delivered a fatal dose of morphine to his already dying father, Sal.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
San Francisco lawyers Dismas Hardy and his associate and only daughter Rebecca find themselves in the middle of a difficult murder case. 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?
15) Guilt
Author
Series
Abe Glitsky volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
462 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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
16) Betrayal
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 12
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
607 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taking over the casework of a recently disappeared attorney, Dismas Hardy and detective Abe Glitsky tackle an unexpectedly challenging appeal to overturn the life sentence of a National Guard reservist who has been convicted for a double murder.
17) The rule of law
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"No one mourned when San Francisco DA Wes Farrell put Paul Riley in prison eleven years ago for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. And no one is particularly happy to see him again when he’s released after The Exoneration Initiative uncovered evidence that pinned the crime on someone else. In fact, Riley soon turns up murdered, surrounded by the loot from his latest scam. But if Riley was really innocent all along, who wanted him dead?
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