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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Having joined the "dark side" after years spent prosecuting criminals as the San Francisco DA, defense attorney Wes Farrell is experiencing a crisis of faith. How can he in good conscience defend clients whom, in his estimation, are most likely guilty? In his role as DA, Farrell had helped put away Paul Riley, a young man charged for the rape and murder of his then-girlfriend Dana Rush, only for Riley to later be released from his life sentence -...
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In an effort to save his wife, lawyer Dismas Hardy investigates the murder of a woman thrown out of a window. The victim was his wife's friend and she has been jailed for refusing to reveal a secret which the other confided to her.
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
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...
4) The keeper
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 15
Language
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...
6) The suspect
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English
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"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."--Source other than the Library of Congress.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
San Francisco lawyers Dismas Hardy and his associate and only daughter Rebecca find themselves in the middle of a difficult murder case involving a teenage African American foster child.
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Dismas Hardy, a successful managing partner at a thriving law firm, has lost his faith in the law. When his young associate takes on a high profile and challenging double homicide case, Hardy assists with the defense, hoping to salvage his firm's reputation. As evidence against their client mounts, and the search for truth becomes more perilous, Hardy must conquer his own demons if he is to clear his client, and save himself.
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English
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Dismas Hardy, lawyer/investigator, undertakes the defense of Jennifer Witt, accused of murdering her husband and their eight-year-old son as well as her first husband, who had died nine years earlier from an apparent drug overdose. While preparing his case, Hardy learns that both of Jennifer's husbands had physically abused her. But Jennifer refuses to allow a defense that presumes her guilt. She is not guilty, she claims. Hardy is now driven to seek...
10) The mercy rule
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Series
Language
English
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Dismas Hardy defends a fellow attorney and former baseball player who is accused of killing his father.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"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...
13) The hunt club
Author
Series
Wyatt Hunt novels volume 1
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
14) Poison: a novel
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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 Carver, the vigorous patriarch of the Carver family and its four-generations...
15) The motive
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Deputy Chief Inspector Abe Glitsky and defense attorney Dismas Hardy work to solve a double homicide case. What at first seems straightforward quickly turns complex when it is revealed that the bodies were not burned in a leveling fire but were victims of gunshot wounds.
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