Guilt (Abe Glitsky) | John Lescroart

Guilt (Abe Glitsky) | John Lescroart | Good but not his best

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Guilt (Abe Glitsky)

	Guilt (Abe Glitsky) John Lescroart Island Books, 1998 - 656 pages average customer review:based on 43 reviews view larger image
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Mark Dooher is a prosperous San Francisco attorney and a prominent Catholic, the last person anyone would suspect of a brutal crime. But Dooher, a paragon of success and a master of all he touches, is about to be indicted for murder.

Charged with savagely killing his own wife, Dooher is fighting for his reputation and his life in a high-profile case that is drawing dozens of lives into its wake--from former spouses to former friends, from a beautiful, naive young attorney to a defense lawyer whose own salvation depends on getting his client off.

Now, as the trial builds to a crescendo, as evidence is sifted and witnesses discredited, as a good cop tries to pick up the pieces of his shattered life and a D.A. risks her career, the truth about Mark Dooher is about to explode. For in a trial that will change the lives of everyone it touches, there is one thing that no one knows--until it is much too late....

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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 interesting characters and motives.

The gist if the book is a successful lawyer is indicted for murdering his wife. You know the book is heading in this direction, but when you get to that point you are still wondering if he did or didn't kill her.

I won't spoil anything, except to say run don't walk to your nearest browser and add this one to your shopping cart.

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Good but not his best

Abe Glitsky and Dismas Hardy are hardy mentioned in this latest legal thriller by Lescroart, but none the less, it is an excellent read. You can guess whodunnit early on, but it is still a good read, especially for a plane, train or the beach.

Good first read

This is my first Lescroart novel. Despite an awareness as to the identity of the culprit in the early stages of the novel, the book was a fairly quick read. About half way through you will be absolutely sure of the creep's identity. The creep is a murderous sociopath who has taken big chances in life, always at the expense of others, not himself. Hence, an extremely selfish individual at that.

One of the main characters is a tough cop who has to deal with personal life pains in addition to capturing the scum who has been perpetrating horrendous crimes in San Francisco.

Although not my favorite crime novel by far, I will definitely read more of Lescroart in the future

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