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John Lescroart

Author of The 13th Juror

58+ Works 14,202 Members 255 Reviews 30 Favorited

About the Author

John Lescroart was born in Houston, Texas on January 14, 1948. He started writing as a student at the University of California-Berkeley, where he majored in English. Following college and a job with a telephone company, he traveled around Europe, singing folk and country-rock music. He won the 1978 show more Joseph Henry Jackson best novel award for under-35 California writers with the autobiographical novel Sunburn. While helping his wife raise their two children and working in legal, bartending, musician, and social service positions, he still found the time to write numerous novels. His novels include the Dismas Hardy Series, Son of Holmes, Rasputin's Revenge, A Certain Justice, Guilt, The Hunt Club, The Suspect, Sunburn, Treasure Hunt, Damage, and The Hunter. He made The New York Times Best Seller List iwith his title's The Ophelia Cut,The Keeper, The Fall, and The Rule of Law. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series

Works by John Lescroart

The 13th Juror (1994) 763 copies
The Motive (2004) 749 copies
The Second Chair (2004) 721 copies
The Hunt Club (2005) 709 copies
The Suspect (2007) 681 copies
Dead Irish (1989) 679 copies
The Oath (2002) 676 copies
Betrayal (2008) 649 copies
The First Law (2003) 645 copies
The Hearing (1999) 624 copies
A Plague of Secrets (2009) 597 copies
A Certain Justice (1995) 591 copies
Nothing but the Truth (1999) 584 copies
The Mercy Rule (1998) 566 copies
Guilt (1996) 560 copies
Hard Evidence (1993) 540 copies
Damage (2011) 536 copies
Treasure Hunt (2010) 493 copies
The Vig (1990) 470 copies
The Ophelia Cut (2013) 364 copies
The Hunter (2012) 354 copies
The Keeper (2014) 264 copies
Fatal (1997) 231 copies
The Fall (1600) 224 copies
Poison (2018) 181 copies
Son of Holmes (1986) 178 copies
The Rule of Law (2019) 153 copies
Rasputin's Revenge (1987) 130 copies
The Missing Piece (2021) 128 copies
Sunburn (1981) 86 copies
Closure (2013) 15 copies
The Portal (2017) 4 copies
Jacht / druk 1 (2012) 2 copies
The Gato Conundrum (2022) 2 copies
Rock Guitarists Vol II (1978) 1 copy
Een dode Ier 1 copy
Dead Irish / The Vig (2001) 1 copy
The Earth 1 copy
Second Chair 1 copy

Associated Works

Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night (2006) — Contributor — 743 copies
FaceOff (2014) — Contributor — 496 copies
No Rest for the Dead: A Serial Novel (2011) — Contributor — 401 copies
First Thrills (2010) — Contributor — 246 copies
In the Company of Sherlock Holmes (2011) — Contributor — 219 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 1998 (1998) — Contributor — 176 copies
The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (2015) — Contributor — 132 copies
Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War (2014) — Contributor — 67 copies
Dead Man's Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table (2007) — Contributor — 51 copies

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Son of Holmes in Baker Street and Beyond (March 2007)

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unputdownable, riveting, private-investigators, law-enforcement, local-politics, friends, contemporary, mental-health-issues, cooperation, lawyers, ex-cons, false-information, false-identities, family, family-dynamics, family-expectations, mistakes, multiple-murder, investigations, investigators, thriller,suspense*****

Despite the steep learning curve rising from the fact that I jumped in at book #19, I only read two or three chapters when I hunted up an affordable audio copy (vision issues).
The plot itself spiraled and branched like elk antlers and scooped up extra characters along the way. Each of the characters, both main and ancillary, are very clearly drawn and realistic. Thanks for the intro, but it was definitely worth the price for the audio!
I requested and received an EARC copy from Atria Books via NetGalley. Thank you!
P.S. Bernie Rhodenbarr says that St Dismas is the patron saint of thieves ;)
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jetangen4571 | 12 other reviews | Oct 28, 2023 |
This is another terrific John Lescroart book. Abe Glitsky, one of his regular characters, is one of my favorites. This book is chilling and well-written.
 
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RickGeissal | 13 other reviews | Aug 16, 2023 |
This was a fun, fascinating and well-written murder mystery, with one of the murders having occurred 40 years before the current time. And the book featured a very well-done description and narrative of issues faced by an adopted person who learns in mid-life some shocking things about his birth parents, things that led to his adoption.
 
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RickGeissal | 9 other reviews | Aug 16, 2023 |
Number 19 in the Dismas Hardy series. Primarily an Abe Glitsky plot line. Although there are MANY twists and turns, this one didn't have some of the elements of earlier books that made them rate higher in my estimation.
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