Edited by David Baldacci. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6206-7
A clever concept distinguishes this anthology sponsored by the International Thriller Writers. Each of the 11 stories pairs well-known series characters created by different authors, sometimes in adversarial but more often in collegial ways, and...
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John Lescroart, Author Delacorte Press $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-385-33353-5
Secrets and lies are the leitmotifs in Lescroart's 11th novel--a crisp, engaging thriller that could well be subtitled ""This Time It's Personal."" San Francisco lawyer Dismas Hardy has 72 hours to solve a murder that happened three weeks ago. Time...
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John Lescroart, Author Dutton Books $25.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-525-94575-8
Another satisfying, character-driven legal thriller will be happily embraced by new and longtime fans of master plot-weaver Lescroart (The 13th Juror; etc.). Former San Francisco cop and current defense attorney Dismas Hardy's latest assignment pits
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With their reputation for rolling up hefty profits while doling out penny-pinching care, HMOs have emerged as a favorite villain of crime writers. Lescroart gets in his licks with this scalpel-sharp thriller, the ninth in the Dismas Hardy line. This
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John Lescroart, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (293p) ISBN 978-1-55611-159-4
Dismas Hardy, an ex-policeman and lawyer who has withdrawn from his former life as a result of a personal tragedy, tends an Irish bar in San Francisco. When his boss asks him to investigate the apparent suicide of Eddie Cochran, Hardy agrees....
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John Lescroart, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (295p) ISBN 978-1-55611-221-8
Ex-San Francisco prosecutor Dismas Hardy (seen in Dead Irish ) seems to be mending his life as bartender and part-owner of a saloon, even spending more time with his ex-wife. Then prosecutor Rusty Ingraham appears with news that Louis Baker, whom he
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John Lescroart, Author Dutton Books $21.95 (478p) ISBN 978-1-55611-344-4
In his third appearance, San Francisco bartender Dismas Hardy returns to the practice of law to star in a gripping courtroom drama that may well be Lescroart's breakthrough novel. After the severed hand of a murdered billionaire is discovered in a...
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John Lescroart, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-55611-445-8
Politics and justice mix like oil and water after racial tensions erupt into violence in this taut and engrossing San Francisco-set thriller. Lescroart (The 13th Juror) wastes no time setting up his story. In the first few, galvanizing pages, an...
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John Lescroart, Author Delacorte Press $24.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-385-31655-2
Perhaps it's because he's one of the few writers of legal thrillers who isn't a lawyer that Lescroart has brought so much more to this novel and its predecessors (A Certain Justice, etc.) than simply courtroom dazzle--though the legal infighting...
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John Lescroart, Author Delacorte Press $24.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-385-31658-3
For a topical thriller from an established talent, Lescroart's 10th (after Guilt) is curiously flat. Maybe it's the cliche factor--which surfaces fast, when San Francisco lawyer Dismas Hardy (back from The 13th Juror) gets a call from Graham Russo,...
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John Lescroart. Dutton, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-95256-5
“How did your mother die?” For San Francisco PI Wyatt Hunt, that enigmatic text message triggers his biggest, and most personal, case—and it’s a great start to bestseller Lescroart’s outstanding fourth Hunt novel (after 2010’s The Treasure Club)....
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John Lescroart. Atria, $26.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4767-0915-4
In bestseller Lescroart’s engrossing 17th legal thriller featuring San Francisco DA Dismas Hardy (after 2010’s Damage), Hardy’s niece, Brittany McGuire, a recent college grad, has the misfortune to date paralegal Rick Jessup. The despicable Jessup...
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John Lescroart. Atria, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-0918-5
At the start of bestseller Lescroart’s entertaining 18th thriller featuring San Francisco DA Dismas Hardy (after 2013’s The Ophelia Cut), Hardy learns that Katie Chase, wife of sheriff’s deputy Hal Chase, has gone missing. The cops question Hal, who’
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John Lescroart. Atria, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-0921-5
San Francisco attorney Dismas Hardy’s grown daughter, Rebecca, plays a central role in bestseller Lescroart’s subpar 19th series legal thriller (after 2014’s The Keeper). When 17-year-old Anlya Paulson, an African-American, dies after falling from...
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John Lescroart. Atria, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1567-7
Bestseller Lescroart (The Fall and 18 other Ditmas Hardy novels) successfully blends a police procedural with a whodunit in this absorbing standalone. A few days after meeting at a dinner party in San Francisco, Kate Jameson, who’s married, phones...
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John Lescroart. Atria, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1570-7
In bestseller Lescroart’s satisfying 20th Dismas Hardy novel (after 2016’s The Fall), the San Francisco attorney, who’s recovering from two gunshot wounds and looking forward to retiring soon, can’t resist defending a former client, Abby Jarvis,...
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John Lescroart. Atria, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1573-8
In bestseller Lescroart’s enthralling 21st Dismas Hardy novel (after 2018’s Poison), the San Francisco attorney is concerned when his long-suffering secretary, Phyllis McGowan, abruptly disappears. In searching her apartment, Hardy discovers that...
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John Lescroart. Atria, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-9821-7049-3
Bestseller Lescroart’s excellent 22nd Dismas Hardy novel (after 2019’s The Rule of Law) finds Wes Farrell, a defense attorney in the San Francisco law firm in which he and Dismas are partners, in the throes of an existential crisis. Wes no longer...
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John Lescroart, Author . Dutton $26.95 (357p) ISBN 978-0-525-95144-5
Bestseller Lescroart’s lackluster third Hunt Club thriller (after The Suspect
) finds PI Wyatt Hunt near the end of his rope. Business has slowed to a trickle; Hunt’s relationship with his old high school friend, homicide detective Devin
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John Lescroart, Author . Dutton $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-525-94705-9
Abe Glitsky, the gruff, hard-nosed homicide cop from San Francisco who typically plays a supporting role in Lescroart's line of legal thrillers (Hard Evidence; The Hearing; etc.), takes center stage in the series's 11th entry. After...
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John Lescroart, Author . Dutton $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-94775-2
Lescroart starts slowly and takes too much time building reader interest in this latest addition to his acclaimed San Francisco legal suspense series featuring lawyer Dismas Hardy and cop pal Abe Glitsky (The First Law
, The Oath
, The Hearing
)....
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John Lescroart, Author . Dutton $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-94844-5
In the latest installment of the Glitsky-Hardy crime-solving series (The 13th Juror
; The Second Chair
; etc.), San Francisco–based Lescroart again demonstrates his mastery of how things work in the city by the bay. Arson investigators at a...
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John Lescroart, Author . Dutton $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-94914-5
The heroes of Lescroart's popular Dismas Hardy/Abe Glitsky series (The Second Chair
; etc.) have reached the point where age and professional success keep them from the gritty street-level investigations that made their adventures so good. While
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John Lescroart, Author . Dutton $26.95 (385p) ISBN 978-0-525-94998-5
Bestseller Lescroart's latest legal thriller falls short of its recent predecessors (The Hunt Club
, etc.), after a promising opening. Successful outdoor author Stuart Gorman finds himself the prime suspect in the murder of his wife, Caryn,...
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John Lescroart, Author . Dutton $26.95 (422p) ISBN 978-0-525-95039-4
At the start of the adrenaline-infused 10th thriller to feature DA Dismas Hardy (Dead Irish
, etc.) from bestseller Lescroart, Hardy agrees to wrap up some of the caseload of a Bay Area lawyer who has mysteriously disappeared. After discovering that
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John Lescroart, Author . Dutton $26.95 (417p) ISBN 978-0-525-95092-9
A brisk pace, sharp dialogue and believable characters propel bestseller Lescroart's 13th thriller to feature San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy (after Betrayal
). When someone shoots Dylan Volger in an alley near the coffee shop he...
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John Lescroart, Dutton, $26.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-525-95176-6
San Francisco homicide chief Abe Glitsky takes on a particularly nasty villain in Lescroart's hair-raising 16th novel featuring Glitsky and lawyer Dismas Hardy (after A Plague of Secrets). After Ro Curtlee serves 10 years of a long prison sentence...
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John Lescroart, Author Island Books $7.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-440-22104-3
An innocent man is accused of spearheading a racially motivated murder in Lescroart's latest thriller. (Sept.)
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John Lescroart, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-55611-402-1
Further evidence that Lescroart ( Hard Evidence ) can hold his own among legal-thriller writers comes with this taut novel about an abused San Francisco housewife who is arrested for shooting both her seven-year-old son and her physician husband, a...
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John Lescroart, Author, David Colacci, Performed by , read by David Colacci. Brilliance Audio $38.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-8693-3
Lescroart's multilayered 1999 novel, the fifth to feature San Francisco bartender-turned-barrister Dismas Hardy, is a heady brew of courtroom drama, hot topics (assisted suicide), and family dynamics among richly drawn characters. David Colacci,
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John Lescroart, read by Jacques Roy. S&S Audio, , unabridged, 10 CDs, 10 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-5082-1162-4
Lescroart’s new San Francisco–set standalone thriller is pretty much the ultimate literary exploration of the domino effect. Kate Jameson, who’s married, seduces Peter Ash, whom she just met at a dinner party. To her their nooner was a momentary...
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John T. Lescroart, read by Jacques Roy. S&S Audio, , unabridged, 9 CDs, 10 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-5082-3860-7
Roy, a reader new to the Dismas Hardy series, is oddly unemotional in his rendition of Lescroart’s 20th book featuring genial San Francisco defense attorney Hardy and his pals. The mystery revolves around the death of Grant Wagner, the wealthy owner
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John Lescroart, Author, David Colacci, Read by , read by David Colacci. Brilliance $38.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-3977-9
When Dylan, the manager of the successful Bay Beans West Coffee Shop, is found shot dead with a backpack full of marijuana, the evidence points toward the cafe's owner, Maya Townshead, as the killer. When another body is found and Maya is...
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John Lescroart, read by David Colacci. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 9 CDs, 11.5 hrs., $36.99 ISBN 978-1-4805-0386-1
Each of the protagonists in Lescrorat’s four series—lawyer Dismas Hardy, San Francisco DA Wes Farrell, his special investigator Abe Glitsky, and private eye Wyatt Hunt—are all present for the author’s 25th novel, but it’s Hardy’s daughter, Rebecca,...
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John Lescroart, Author, David Colacci, Read by , read by David Colacci. Brilliance Audio $40.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59355-362-3
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, read by David Colacci. Brilliance Audio
, unabridged, 12 CDs, 14 hrs., $40.9
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John Lescroart, Author, John Lescroart, Other Dutton Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-917657-64-1
In 1915 Auguste Lupa, a mysterious 25-year-old chef, is asked to join the weekly homemade-beer-and-conversation sessions of undercover French spy Jules Giraud, who is on the trail of a master German saboteur with designs on the nearby armory in St....
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Barbara Mariconda, Author, John Lescroart, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-385-32292-8
Relying heavily on thunderstorms, crashing waves and the protagonist's frequent exclamations of ""Godfrey Mighty"" for dramatic effect, this rather convoluted thriller set on the coast of Maine spreads itself thinly over too much ground. Twelve-year-
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