Damage

Lescroart has nailed down the art of making the minutiae of legal procedure gripping! The legal system is filled with byzantine twists and turns. It is one of those glitches that frees a violent, convicted serial rapist, puts him back in the community on bail and mandates that he be re-tried at some......more

This is another entry in John Lescroart's long-running series featuring San Franciso attorney Dismas Hardy and the head of the city PD's homicide squad, Abe Glitsky, although in this book, Hardy makes only a couple of token appearances. The book focuses instead on Glitsky and on Wes Farrell, another......more

Not sure why I strayed away from Lescroart and his characters other than I've discovered other good authors and series. On the second read, this book gave as much pleasure as its first reading: A likable, hard-working protagonist and an arrogant suspect who for his entire life his family's fortunes......more

Since I am also a big fan of Michael Connelly, this is the easiest reference I can make; reading this book was like reading the negative of Lincoln Lawyer, a reverse case, so to speak. In Damage, it's a brand new playboy, comedian, DA, who won by 90 votes because the other guy died before the electi......more

After several other Lescroart books, this one was a real disappointment. The underlying story, itself, delivers nicely. But getting there was tedious. The new DA and the SF cops, including our well known hero, Abe Glitsky, were portrayed as nothing better than keystone kops who didn't know the law n......more