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Author
Series
Wyatt Hunt novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
The widow of a major player in the world of San Francisco nonprofits believes that his alleged mistress killed him-and she's putting up fifty grand to whoever helps prove it. Wyatt Hunt and his investigation firm want in on that action-no matter where it takes them...
2) The suspect
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dr. Caryn Dryden is found floating dead in her hot tub, her husband becomes the prime suspect. Gina Roake takes the case and feels her client's innocence will be easy to prove since he was at his cabin on Echo Lake that weekend.
4) Dead Irish
Author
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...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
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.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 10
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Author
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,...
10) The first law
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 14
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Defense attorney Dismas Hardy returns to defend a close friend against murder charges.
12) The motive
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 11
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
13) Damage
Author
Language
English
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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.
14) Hard evidence
Author
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.
15) The oath
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 8
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
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.
Author
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
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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 urged on by curiosity and the mysterious texter, Hunt takes on a case he never knew existed, one that has lain unsolved for decades.
19) Son of Holmes
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"John Lescroart offers an engrossing historical mystery that takes us to a small French town in the dark days of World War I and introduces us to Auguste Lupa. The rumor is that he is the son of the greatest detective of all time. And the truth of his mysterious legacy may come to light as he attempts to solve the baffling murder of an intelligence agent and uncover an ingenious act of sabotage." --
They say he is the son of Sherlock Holmes...The...
20) The 13th juror
Author
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...
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