John T Lescroart

"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...

"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...

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...

"Kate is happily married to her husband, Ron. They have two wonderful children and a beautiful home in San Francisco. Everything changes when she and Ron attend a party and meet Peter and Jill. Kate and Peter exchange a few pleasant words, but that night, Kate is overcome with desire for Peter. An innocent crush develops into an obsession, resulting in one passionate encounter between the two. Not long after their affair, a masked man barges into...

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.

In the aftermath of a federal judge's murder, homicide inspector Devin Juhle discovers that the victim had powerful enemies, a mistress, and unsettling ties to a woman with whom Devin's best friend has fallen in love.

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.

When the owner of a trendy coffee bean supplier is found shot, the beautiful socialite niece of San Francisco's mayor is put on trial. Did she know that the shop, which on paper belongs to her, was also the supplier of marijuana to San Francisco's wealthy and powerful? Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and P.I. Wyatt Hunt find themselves on different sides of this trial in another crisp and page-turning thriller from New York Times best selling author Lescroart....

When a homicide detective's daughter is killed, the aggrieved father pushes the main suspect for answers, D.A. Sharon Pratt sets out to revive her career by declaring war on the accused, and defense attorney Dismas Hardy struggles to ensure a fair trial.

In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. But then the news of Eddie Cochran's death reaches him. For the sake of Eddie's pregnant widow Frannie and the others whose lives may still be at risk, Hardy is propelled back into all the things he was trying to escape.