Dismas Hardy novels
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1) Dead Irish
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 1
Pub. Date
©1989.
Language
English
Description
In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He's left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it's not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shattering personal loss ? but for the time being, he can always take the edge off with a stiff drink and a round of darts. But when the news of Eddie Cochran's death reaches him, Hardy is propelled back into all the things he...
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 2
Publisher
D.I. Fine
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Ex-cop, part-time investigator, and sometime bartender Dismas Hardy returns to face a death threat as he investigates the bloody disappearance of his friend Rusty Ingraham, an investigation that exposes foot-dragging police, corruption and an enforcer named Johnny LaGuardia. The second book in the Dismas Hardy series.
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 3
Publisher
D.I. Fine
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
When Dismas Hardy, a San Francisco district attorney, takes up the case of a Japanese prostitute accused of murdering a Silicon Valley billionaire, he becomes the target of her powerful clientele and falls for the victim's daughter.
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 4
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
aA legal thriller featuring a battered San Francisco wife accused of shooting both her husband and her seven-year-old son. When the trial opens she refuses to allow a defense of spousal abuse because of its implication of guilt. Which presents her lawyer, the narrator, with a major problem as the prosecution claims she killed the husband for the insurance.
Jennifer Witt, accused of murdering her husband, their young son, and her first husband, gainsays...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 6
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Dismas knows his wife, Frannie, is the most reliable of mothers. When she fails to pick up their children from school one afternoon, he's convinced something terrible has happened. It has: Frannie Hardy is in jail. Called before the grand jury in a murder investigation, she refused to reveal a secret entrusted to her by a man whose children attend the same school as hers, a friend who is accused of killing his wife. But now he has disappeared. Hardy...
7)
The hearing , Dismas Hardy novels volume 7
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8) The oath
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 8
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 9
Language
English
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Description
Defense attorney Dismas Hardy and Lieutenant Abe Glitsky find themselves outside the law in their 11th outing. A private police force supervised by the San Francisco Police Department - a holdover from the city's vigilante past - suspect the proprietor of a run-down local bar. When the man flees, Hardy and Glitsky are caught in the crossfire.
10) The second chair
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 10
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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11) The motive
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 11
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 12
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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...
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 14
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Defense attorney Dismas Hardy returns to defend a close friend against murder charges.
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 15
Language
English
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"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...
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English
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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.
17) Poison: a novel
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Series
Language
English
Description
In this riveting new book by “master of the legal thriller” (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart, attorney Dismas Hardy investigates the murder of a wealthy man whose heirs are all potential suspects. Finally recovered from two glancing gunshot wounds, Dismas Hardy is looking forward to easing into retirement and reconnecting with his family. But he is pulled back into the courtroom when Grant Wagner, the steely owner of a successful family business,...
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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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...
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 19
Publisher
Atria Books
Language
English
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"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 -...