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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...

Features San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy. When someone shoots Dylan Volger in an alley near the coffee shop he managed, Bay Beans West, the cops discover a load of marijuana in the victim's backpack, a crop of weed growing in his attic and a customer list that includes a judge and several local officials. Suspicion centers on Hardy's client and Bay Beans West's owner, Maya Townshend, who's the sister of a city supervisor and the mayor's...

Katie Chase, wife of Hal Chase--a guard in the San Francisco County Jail--has disappeared. By the time Dismas Hardy hears about it, Katie has been missing for five days. The case has become a suspected homicide, and Hal is the prime suspect. He wants Hardy as his defense lawyer. Hardy calls on his friend, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky, to identify other possible suspects, and there is no shortage of them. As Glitsky probes further, he learns...

"Dismas Hardy is looking forward to cutting back his work hours and easing into retirement after recovering from two gunshot wounds. He is determined to spend more time with his family and even reconnect with his distant son, Vincent. But Dismas just can't stay away from the courtroom for long and soon he is pulled into an intense family drama with fatal consequences. Grant Wagner, the vigorous patriarch of the Wagner family and its four-generations...

"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...

Rusty Ingraham, friend of former cop and prosecutor Dismas Hardy, disappeared leaving behind a murdered woman and a houseboat splattered with blood. Hardy must find out if Ingraham is dead.

When HMO executive Tim Markham is hit by a car during a morning jog through his exclusive San Francisco neighborhood, he has the bad luck to be transported to one of his own hospitals . . . and winds up dead in his ICU bed. His death appears to be a case of malice, not of malpractice - especially after Markham's entire family is gunned down in their home.

Lawyer Dismas Hardy of San Francisco is hired to defend a man accused of mercy-killing his father who had Alzheimer's disease. The man denies administering the deadly morphine, but in that case who did? By the author of Guilt.

Attorney Dismas Hardy becomes involved in what could turn out to be his last case when he reluctantly agrees to defend fellow lawyer Graham Russo against a charge that he delivered a fatal dose of morphine to his already dying father, Sal.