

The Motive
Author: John Lescroart
Series: Dismas Hardy #11
Narrator: David Colacci
Unabridged: 14 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/16/2017
Author: John Lescroart
Series: Dismas Hardy #11
Narrator: David Colacci
Unabridged: 14 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/16/2017
American thriller author, John Lescroart, was born in Houston, TX in 1948. He graduated from high school in San Mateo, CA, and then earned a B. A. in English with honors at UC Berkeley in 1970.
Lescroart held many varied jobs through his early years out of college. Everything from bartender, moving man, house painter to singer/songwriter with his own band.
John has written more than twenty novels and several screenplays. His most popular novels are the Dismas Hardy/Abe Glitsky series and the Wyatt Hunt series. His books are translated and sold in more than seventy-five countries. He is also popular with his blogs at johnlescroart.com, Twitter, and Facebook.
Flames engulf a picturesque, renovated San Francisco Victorian in the opening pages of this mystery. The entire first chapter is a mesmerizing drama pitting the fire against wave after wave of arriving fire fighters. As the fire is contained but not yet totally extinguished, Arnie Becker, the lead a......more
#11 of the Dismas Hardy series. One of the famous “Painted Ladies”—Victorian houses in San Fransisco—is on fire. The house belonging to famous lawyer and political figure, Paul Hanover. Two bodies are later discovered inside the building, Paul Hanover and his supposed young fiancée, Missy D'Amiens, w......more
Okay, sometimes I need a mindless page turner to get me through a long layover or boring bus ride. This book helped with that. It's definitely captivating, and I like that it is set in SF (makes me nostalgic) but this will be my last Lescroart book. His characters are just so one-dimensional, and I......more
When a heavy contributor to the San Francisco mayor is found murdered in his burning home, an ambitious maverick detective with a background of sexual harassment and a grudge against Dismas Hardy's childhood girlfriend, Hardy must prove the detective abuse of his position and inadequate investigatio......more