John T. Lescroart
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
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...
2) The hunter
Author
Series
Wyatt Hunt novels volume 3
Pub. Date
c2012
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 Hunt takes on a case he never knew existed, one that has lain unsolved for decades. His family's dark past unfurls in dead ends. The texter, who insists the killer is out there, refuses to be identified. The...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 17
Pub. Date
2018.
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 Wagner, the vigorous patriarch of the Wagner family and its four-generations...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 16
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
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 2
Pub. Date
2010
Formats
Description
Mickey Dade hates deskwork but that's all he's been doing at Wyatt Hunt's private investigative service, The Hunt Club. His itch to be active is answered when a body is discovered. It's Dominic Como, one of San Francisco's most charismatic and high-profile activists. One "person of interest" in the case is Como's business associate, Alicia Thorpe--young, gorgeous, and the sister of one of Mickey's friends.
6) The suspect
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Formats
Description
Taking on a high-profile case involving a recently separated man who has been charged with murdering his highly insured wife, Gina Roake finds herself strangely drawn to her client and hires Wyatt Hunt to help her ascertain his guilt.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 13
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
Dismas Hardy defends Maya Townshend, the beautiful socialite niece of the mayor of San Francisco, 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
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 10
Formats
Description
As San Francisc lawyer Dismas Hardy works second chair on a juvenile murder trial, a killer is shooting citizens wantonly and the two cases make a shocking twist.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 19
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
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 -...
10) Damage
Author
Publisher
Dutton
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.
11) The hunt club
Author
Series
Wyatt Hunt novels volume 1
Formats
Description
A federal judge and his mistress are found murdered. What looks at first like a simple case of jealousy and revenge becomes deeper and more dangerous as Inspector Devin Juhle and his friends uncover unsuspected connections.
12) The motive
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 11
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
404 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 12
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
422 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"When Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of recently disappeared attorney Charlie Bowen, he thinks it will be easy. But one of the cases is far from small-time--the sensational clash between National Guard reservist Evan Scholler and an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named Ron Nolan. Two rapid-fire events in Iraq conspired to bring the men into fatal conflict: Nolan's relationship with Evan's girlfriend, Tara, a beautiful school-teacher...
14) The Ophelia cut
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 14
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
691 pages ; cm.
15) Sunburn
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2009], ©1981.
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.
16) The vig
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 2
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
9 CDs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 6
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
14 CDs (16 hr., 46 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Attorney Dismas Hardy's wife is jailed for refusing to give up critical information in a murder trial. Now Dismas must find the real killer and free his wife.
18) The first law
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 9
Publisher
Brilliance
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
11 CDs (13 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
13 CDs (ca.16 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a black man is lynched in San Francisco, Chief of Homicide Abe Glitsky struggles to do the right thing despite pressure put on him by an ambitious politician and former lover.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2019.
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...