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Dismas Hardy novels

Author:
Lescroart, John T
 
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Series Volume:
1.
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5 stars
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When the boss of ex-cop Dismas Hardy begins an investigation into the alleged suicide of his brother-in-law, also a friend of Hardy, Hardy steps in to help and becomes privy to the lives of the victim's family.
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Series Volume:
2.
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5 stars
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Ex-cop, part-time investigator, and sometime bartender Dismas Hardy faces a death threat as he investigates the disappearance of his friend Rusty Ingraham, an investigation that exposes foot-dragging police and corruption.

3.  Hard evidence

 
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3.
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Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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When Jennifer Witt is put on trial for murdering her husband and son, her attorney, Dismas Hardy, believes that the years of abuse she suffered will provide a foolproof defense. But Jennifer rejects that defense--abused or not, she didn't kill anyone. Can Hardy convince anyone of that?
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Series Volume:
5.
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5 stars
Book cover for "Nothing but the truth".
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Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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.
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Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Attorney Dismas Hardy makes a discovery that threatens his family and his friendship with homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky while representing Dr. Eric Kensing, a man accused of murdering the head of San Francisco's largest HMO.
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Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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When an elderly shop owner can no longer pay for the services of the Patrol Specials private police force, he tries to get help from his friend in the police department of San Francisco only to wind up murdered. Dismas Hardy is putting together a lawsuit against the Patrol Specials when his friend is accused of the murder. The policeman and the lawyer must try to protect each other and their nearest and dearest.
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Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When a politically connected socialite and his glamorous fiancée are found dead, Abe Glitsky is placed at the head of the controversial investigation. The original detective on the case, Dan Cuneo, zeroes in on a former girlfriend of Dismas Hardy as the perpetrator--and yet more evidence of collusion between Hardy and Glitsky. Dissatisfied with Cuneo's investigation, Glitsky pursues a different course, one that will lead him directly into a web of...
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Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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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 appeal to overturn the murder conviction of National Guard reservist Evan Scholler, who has been sentenced to life without parole for the murder of an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named Ron Nolan. Two rapid-fire events in Iraq conspired to bring the men into fatal conflict:...
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Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"Defense attorney Dismas Hardy returns to defend a close friend against murder charges in New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart's most suspenseful and intricately plotted novel to date"--
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Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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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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Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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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 Franciscós Stockton tunnel. But did she falĺŒor was she pushed?
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Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"When the steely owner of a successful family business is murdered, attorney Dismas Hardy doubts the guilt of a chief suspect and instead combs through a maelstrom of dangerous secrets and gold-digger agendas to identify a killer among the victim's numerous heirs."--Amazon.com.
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Series Volume:
18.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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...
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Series Volume:
19.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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"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 -...