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Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 4
Publisher
Donald I. Fine
Pub. Date
1995, c1994
Physical Desc
544 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lawyer/investigator Dismas Hardy defends a woman accused of killing her husband, her son, and her previous husband.
Author
Series
Gina Roake volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Caryn Dryden is found floating dead in her hot tub, homicide inspector Devin Juhle targets a suspect close to home: her husband, Stuart Gorman. After all, Stuart was recently asked for a divorce . . . and he stands to gain millions in insurance. His alibi--that he was at his cabin on Tamarack Lake that weekend--doesnt́ keep him out of hot water. But maybe a shrewd attorney will. Gina Roake, a partner in Dismas Hardyś firm, is eager to take...
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
Wyatt Hunt novels volume 2
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
San Francisco is shocked when the body of Dominic Como, a member of a half-dozen boards of directors for non-profit and charitable organizations, is found half-submerged in a lagoon and his young business associate Alicia Thrope is considered to be a person of interest in his murder. Private investigator Wyatt Hunt and his young protégé Mickey Dade start poking around the case, partly to appease Mickey's crush on Alicia and partly to keep Wyatt's...
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
Wyatt Hunt novels volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raised by loving adoptive parents, San Francisco private investigator Wyatt Hunt never had an interest in finding his birth family -- until he gets a chilling text message from an unknown number: 'How did ur mother die?' The answer is murder, and urged on by curiosity and the mysterious texter, Hunt takes on a case he never knew existed, one that has lain unsolved for decades. His family's dark past unfurls in dead ends. Child Protective Services,...
Author
Series
Wyatt Hunt novels volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A federal judge is murdered, found shot to death in his home--together with the body of his mistress. The crime grips San Francisco. To homicide inspector Devin Juhle, it looks at first like a simple case of a wifeś jealousy and rage. But Juhleś investigation reveals that the judge had powerful enemies . . . some of whom may have been willing to kill to prevent him from meddling in their affairs. Meanwhile, private investigator Wyatt Hunt, Juhleś...
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 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
Abe Glitsky volume 2
Publisher
Island Books/Dell
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
622 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Influential San Francisco attorney Mark Dooher—affluent, powerful, totally in control—is accustomed to getting what he wants. When he meets a beautiful young attorney, he decides he wants her, too. But Mark Dooher is a married man, and as legal counsel for San Francisco's Archdiocese, divorce is not exactly an option. Then Dooher's wife is murdered, and Mark becomes a suspect in the case. Even then, there's no cause for alarm. The woman he wants...
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
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
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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