John Lescroart
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy volume 9
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A spellbinding novel that forces defense attorney Dismas Hardy and Lieutenant Abe Glitsky outside the law and into a fight for their lives.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy volume 5
Pub. Date
c1998
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
Dismas Hardy volume 4
Pub. Date
1994
Description
Lawyer/investigator Diamas Hardy defends a woman accused of killing her husband, her son, and her previous husband.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy volume 12
Pub. Date
2008
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 appeal to overturn the murder conviction of National Guard reservist Evan Scholler, who has been sentenced to life without parole for the murder of an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named Ron Nolan. Two rapid-fire events in Iraq conspired to bring the men into fatal conflict....
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
In San Francisco, a black lawyer is mistaken for a killer and lynched by whites. A white bystander trying to save him by cutting the rope is photographed holding a knife and portrayed by a newspaper as the mob's leader. The city explodes into violence, politicians outdo each other calling for retribution and a decent man runs for his life
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy 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...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy volume 1
Pub. Date
c1989
Description
San Francisco ex-cop and current bartender Dismas "Diz" Hardy cannot believe his friend Eddie would commit suicide, so he decides to investigate. The progress of his search into Eddie's last days coincides with changes in his own emotional make-up, as he faces the reasons for his divorce and his feelings of guilt over the death of his infant son.
Author
Series
Wyatt Hunt novels volume 1
Pub. Date
p2005
Description
Wyatt Hunt is a self-employed P.I., working low-profile surveillance and insurance fraud cases. When a federal judge is found murdered in Pacific Heights, Hunt enlists his confederation of friends, stringers, and associates--the Hunt Club--to help bring the murderer to justice.
Author
Pub. Date
p2002
Description
When the head of a San Francisco HMO dies in his own hospital, nobody doubts that a hit-and-run car accident was the cause, until the autopsy shows an overdose of potassium, and defense attorney Dismas Hardy and the police get involved and discover a trail of homicide in the hospital.
52) Sunburn
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
On Spain's Costa Brava, passion and intrigue are everywhere, especially in the hearts of those who dwell there. As the dictator Franco teeters on the edge of overthrow, two couples are entwined. One is a husband and wife bored with the existence they have drifted into, the other a passionate, combative pair who relish every moment of life. Into this potent mix comes a young American seeking his missing lover, bringing a shadow of danger into the machinations...
53) The oath
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 8
Pub. Date
p2004
Description
When the head of San Francisco's largest HMO dies in his own hospital, no one doubts that it is anything but the result of massive injuries inflicted by a random hit-and-run accident. But the autopsy soon tells a different story - an overdose of potassium killed him, and the attending physician, Eric Kensing, becomes the prime suspect in a high-profile homicide.
56) Faceoff
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Description
Features pairings by twenty-three best-selling suspense writers, including John Sandford, F. Paul Wilson, and R. L. Stine, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.
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