Book 1

THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING DISMAS HARDY SERIES!

In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He’s left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it’s not as easy to...Read more

Book 2

Former San Francisco lawyer Dismas Hardy is being hunted by one of the thugs he once put away in this thriller from New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart.

Soldier. Cop. Lawyer. Dismas Hardy’s done the tough jobs, and had some tough luck. Now he’s kicking back and...Read more

Book 3

Hard Evidence

by John Lescroart

Published 14 April 1994

'A blockbuster courtroom drama' - Kirkus Review

When the bullet-ridden body of a Silicon Valley billionaire washes up on shore, assistant D.A. Dismas Hardy finds himself the prosecutor in San Francisco's murder trial of the century. The suspect: a Japanese call girl with a long list of prominent clients....

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Book 4

The 13th Juror

by John Lescroart

Published 1 July 1995
In John T. Lescroart's brilliant new novel, The 13th Juror, 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,...Read more

Book 5

The Mercy Rule

by John Lescroart

Published 8 September 1998
“A stylish whodunit . . . Lescroart [is] in his best form yet.”—People
 
Once Dismas Hardy was a cop. Now he spends his days in a lawyer’s suit, billing hours to a corporate client in a downtown San Francisco office. Hardy’s wife and kids like it that way. Then one...Read more

Book 6

Nothing But the Truth

by John Lescroart

Published 8 July 1999
Lawyer Dismas Hardy is sure his wife is the most reliable of mothers. So when she fails to pick their children up from school one Thursday afternoon he's convinced something terrible has happened. It has. His wife has been keeping a secret from him - for which she is...Read more

Book 7

The Hearing

by John Lescroart

Published 7 September 2000
A San Francisco police officer's daughter is murdered whilst working for the city's court system. His best friend is defence counsel for the alleged killer. Slowly, through his rage, the officer begins to see the wider picture.

Book 8

The Oath

by John Lescroart

Published 1 January 2002
When HMO executive Tim Markham is hit by a car during a morning jog through his exclusive San Francisco neighborhood, he has the bad luck to be transported to one of his own hospitals . . . and winds up dead in his ICU bed. But in spite of...Read more

Book 9

The First Law

by John Lescroart

Published 27 January 2003
In this thrilling novel from the acclaimed Dismas Hardy series, Hardy’s friend and client finds himself the prime suspect in a homicide investigation.

While Dismas Hardy has built a solid legal practice and a happy family, his friend John Holiday, a proprietor of a rundown local bar, has not...Read more

Book 10

The Second Chair

by John Lescroart

Published 26 January 2004
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart weaves together a story of a privileged youth on trial for murder and an entire city on the brink of panic in this suspensful and stylish Dismas Hardy legal thriller.

Although he appears to have reached the top, Dismas Hardy,...Read more

Book 11

The Motive

by John Lescroart

Published 13 January 2005
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...Read more

Book 12

Betrayal

by John Lescroart

Published 26 February 2008
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...Read more

Book 13

A Plague of Secrets

by John Lescroart

Published 15 June 2009
Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and Wyatt Hunt return

When high-grade marijuana is found on a coffee-shop manager murdered in San Francisco, it suggests that the shop's owner, Maya Townshend, may be behind more than a caffeine fix. But when another murder exposes a drug-buying A-list celebrity and...Read more

Book 14

The Ophelia Cut

by John Lescroart

Published 1 May 2013
Defending old friend Moses McGuire against wrongful murder charges involving a man who raped his daughter, attorney Dismas Hardy risks his career when the case threatens to expose old secrets involving him and police lieutenant Abe Glitsky.

Book 15

The Keeper

by John Lescroart

Published 6 May 2014
"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...Read more

Book 15

The Fall

by John Lescroart

Published 5 May 2015
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...Read more

Book 15

The Keeper

by John Lescroart

Published 31 March 2015

Book 17

Poison, 17

by John Lescroart

Published 19 January 2018
"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...Read more

Book 17

Poison

by John Lescroart

Published 11 September 2018

Book 18

The Rule of Law, 18

by John Lescroart

Published 22 January 2019