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Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 14
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
418 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Moses McGuire has good reason to be concerned about his beautiful twenty-three-year-old daughter, Brittany. She moves quickly from one boyfriend to the next, and always seems to prefer a new and mysterious stranger to a man she knows something about. But her most recent ex, Rick Jessup, isn't willing to let her go, culminating in a terrible night when Brittany is raped. Within twenty-four hours, Rick Jessup is dead, Moses McGuire is the prime suspect...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy volume 3
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
528 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Dismas Hardy, a San Francisco district attorney, takes up the case of a Japanese prostitute accused of murdering a Silicon Valley billionaire, he becomes the target of her powerful clientele and falls for the victim's daughter.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 13
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
417 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first victim is Dylan Vogler, a charming ex-convict who manages the Bay Beans West coffee shop in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. When his body is found, inspectors discover that his knapsack is filled with high-grade marijuana. It soon becomes clear that San Francisco’s A-list flocked to Bay Beans West not only for their caffeine fix. But how much did Maya Townshend—the beautiful socialite niece of the city’s mayor, and the absentee...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 5
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
466 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 10
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
To the outside world, it looks like Dismas Hardy is finally on top. A managing partner at his thriving, newly reorganized law firm, heís a rainmaker and fix-it guy for clients leery of taking their chances in a courtroom. But what the world sees is a mirage. For beneath the surface bravado and the lucrative deal-making, Hardy has lost his faith in the law.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy volume 8
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
viii, 408 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Doctor Eric Kensing is living in fear that he is about to be indicted for the death of a patient. That patient was his boss, Tim Markham. But Kensing and Markham aren't just connected by work -- Kensing's wife is one of Markham's many lovers. It's not looking good for Kensing, so he enlists the help of lawyer Dismas Hardy. Some say Kensing is not worth saving, although others say that Kensing is a special doctor, prepared to do anything to save a...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 9
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
viii, 403 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
San Francisco police lieutenant Abe Glitsky, demoted to payroll after suffering a gunshot wound, and attorney Dismas Hardy search for the real killer of Glitsky's father's best friend when a friend of Hardy is railroaded by the police department.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 2
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2006, c1990
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Soldier. Cop. Lawyer. Dismas Hardy's done the tough jobs, and had some tough luck. Now he's kicking back and tending bar at the Shamrock in San Francisco. But the past returns in the form of Rusty Ingraham-a former fellow prosecutor who drops by for a drink, warning Hardy that a perp they put away nearly ten years ago just got released...and might still be looking for revenge. Next thing Hardy knows, Ingraham's houseboat becomes a murder scene, with...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 1
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2005, c1989
Physical Desc
420 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A ex-cop names his poison. For former San Francisco cop Dismas Hardy, Guinness Stout with Bass Ale is the drink of choice, but a straight Irish whiskey will do anytime. The news of young Eddie Cochran's death calls for a double. The cops think it's suicide, but even to a lapsed Catholic like Hardy, it sounds wrong. Doubts lead him back into the heart of the Little Shamrock, into memories of warm kitchens, cold churches, and sins unforgetten. Blood...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 17
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
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 Wagner, the vigorous patriarch of the Wagner family and its four-generations...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy volume 11
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
404 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With their park view and old-fashioned detail, the Victorian houses on San Francisco's Steiner Street were highly valuable. But with their wooden construction, they were also highly vulnerable. So when Paul Hanover's multimillion-dollar home went up in flames, it was all over very quickly. And when the bodies of Hanover and his girlfriend were found in the charred debris, it appeared that the end came even more quickly for them-judging from the bullet...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 12
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
422 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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: Nolanś relationship with Evanś girlfriend, Tara, a beautiful school-teacher...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A riveting novel featuring Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky on the hunt for clues about a woman who has gone missing. 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...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 16
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Late one night, a teenage African American foster child named Tanya Morgan plummets to her death from the overpass above San Francisco’s Stockton tunnel. But did she fall… or was she pushed? Rushing to produce a convictable suspect in the glare of the media spotlight, homicide inspectors focus their attention on a naïve young man named Greg Treadway. Greg is a middle school teacher and he volunteers as a Special Advocate for foster children....
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