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The Second Chair (Dismas Hardy)
John Lescroart
Signet, 2004
Terrific Book
I thought this book would be a very long legal trial, but it wasn't, and I enjoyed it very, very much. It had me turning the pages as fast as I could, and was very difficult to put down.
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Dead Irish
John Lescroart
Signet, 2005
Great Novel, First in the Dismas Hardy Series
Dead Irish, by John Lescroart, marks the first appearance of series character Dismas Hardy. This murder mystery is set in San Francisco and the surrounding bay area towns. Living in Northern California, and having been to San Fracisco on numerous occasions, Lescroart ...
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Guilt
John Lescroart
Island Books, 1998
Keeps you reading
GUILT is one of those books that keeps pushing you to read "just one more chapter."
If you read the back cover, it is about a murder, but we don't get THAT murder until page 300. The set up is worth the read. Lescroart populates his novels with plenty of ...
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The Suspect (Signet Novel)
John Lescroart
Signet, 2008
A cracker of a court room drama; Cocktail dose of Michael Conelly and John Grisham mashed up into a powerful novel
(1) Gina Roarke defends Stuart Goremean who is acussed of killing his wife.
(2) Problem is Stuart Goreman tied the noose around himself by actually saying things to the inspector Devine Juhle which would actually hurt him. He inadvertently tells the inspector e all ...
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The Mercy Rule
John Lescroart
Island Books, 1999
OPENING A LESCROAT BOOK IS LIKE MEETING OLD FRIENDS
Lescroat has that ability to make his primary characters believeable and earthy. In the "Dismas" books one feels like they are returning to old friends who have encountered some problems along the way. The only problem is that Dismas always seems to get involved in ...
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Nothing but the Truth
John Lescroart
Signet, 2001
Best Book EVER!!!!!!(Holes)
This story is about a boy that got accused for stealing a pair of shoes.Those shoes were some one famous. The boys name was Stanley and his last name is spelled backwards Yelants. Stanley's family was cursed with a spell.His familyhad to send stanley to this camp ...
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The 13th Juror (Dismas Hardy)
John Lescroart
Signet, 2005
Excellent Story with a Little Psycopathology Thrown In
Lescroart is one of the best popular writers out there -- certainly equal to if not better than my those in my short pantheon of writing wizards: Michael Connelly, Crais, Griffen, and a few others. Not only is this a gripping legal procedural, it gives sharp insight ...
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Betrayal (Dismas Hardy)
John Lescroart
Dutton Adult, 2008
Fast-Paced, Hard-Hitting Thriller
Dismas Hardy has to take over the Evan Scholler case, because Scholler's lawyer has disappeared. Scholler has been accused of killing ex-Navy Seal Ron Nolan. Nolan and Evan became friends in Iraq and Evan told Nolan about his girlfriend Tara back home and once back in ...
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Hard Evidence
John Lescroart
Signet, 2002
Another enjoyable entry in the Dismas Hardy series
Iýve been reading Lescroartýs series featuring attorney Dismas Hardy all out of order; fortunately, ýHard Evidenceý stands up well on its own. The author provides a brief update regarding what must be several novels worth of tumultuous events in the lives of Hardy and ...
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A Certain Justice
John Lescroart
Signet, 2006
Never a dull moment
A senseless carjacking/murder by a black gang banger begets a mob lynching of a black lawyer and the city on the bay explodes into a race riot.
Against this violent background John Lescroart unleashes a cast of unforgetable characters.
Kevin Shea - the good ...
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Son of Holmes and Rasputin's Revenge: The Early Works of John T. Lescroart
John Lescroart
Plume, 1995
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The Oath
John Lescroart
Signet, 2003
A Writer's writer!
Several years ago I stumbled across one of Lescroart's early works. It was great -- make that terrific -- and I promptly searched Amazon for more by his pen, then ordered and enjoyed every one of them. Dismas and his erstwhile cop pal, Abe Glitsky, came to be as ...
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Rasputin's Revenge
John Lescroart
NAL Trade, 2003
Mystery with an amazing historical background
I picked up this book at a book exhange coffe house south in Nicaragua, and it turned out to be just what I was looking for. First of all, it's extremely well written. The background being the russian revolution gives it something extra, and for me it really ...
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The Vig
John Lescroart
Signet, 2006
Great Author & Characters
This is the first of the series I read, but definitely not the last.
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The Motive (Dismas Hardy)
John Lescroart
Signet, 2005
One of the best in the Hardy/Glitsky series
I live in San Francisco so it's fun to read a series set in My Fair City.
I discovered the Dismas Hardy series of novels by John Lescroart recently in the Goodwill when I was desperate one day for something to read, and bought one of them. I've been working my ...
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