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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.
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 9
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English
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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.
3) The motive
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 11
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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English
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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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Dismas Hardy novels volume 10
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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7) The oath
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 8
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 14
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Defense attorney Dismas Hardy returns to defend a close friend against murder charges.
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 3
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D.I. Fine
Pub. Date
[1993]
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English
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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.
10) The vig: a novel
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 2
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D.I. Fine
Pub. Date
[1991]
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English
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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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Dismas Hardy novels volume 12
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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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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Dismas Hardy novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"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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Dismas Hardy novels volume 15
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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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Signet
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Kevin Shea is an innocent man caught in a sticky situation that makes him look as though he is a racist murderer. The only person that knows of his innocence is Lieutenant Abe Glitsky who is the head of the city's homicide detail. Unfortunately, Lieutenant Glitsky is distracted when an ex-lover and United States senator shows up, only to put her own spin on the story tearing the city apart. Now Shea must take matters into his own hands to prove his...
15) The 13th juror
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 4
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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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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