Book description
A federal judge is murdered, found shot in his home together with the
body of his mistress. To homicide inspector Devin Juhle, it looks like a
case of a wife's jealousy and rage. But the judge had some powerful
enemies... Meanwhile, Private Investigator Wyatt Hunt finds himself
smitten with the beautiful and enigmatic Andrea Parisi, a celebrity
television lawyer. But Andrea, too, had a connection to the judge, along
with a client that had everything to gain from the judge's death. And
then she suddenly disappears. . . . Andrea becomes Juhle's prime
suspect. Wyatt Hunt thinks she may be a kidnap victim, or worse, another
murder victim. And far more than that, she's someone with whom he
believes he may have a future. As the search for Andrea intensifies,
Hunt gathers a loose band of friends and associates willing to bend and
even break the rules, leading to a chilling confrontation from which
none of them might escape. 'Compulsively readable' John Lescroart
was born in Houston, Texas and brought up in Texas, New York and
Northern California. On graduating from U. C. Berkeley, he did various
jobs before becoming a full-time writer, including working as a singer
in Europe, a bar tender in an Irish pub in San Francisco and associate
director of the Jewish Homes for the Aging in Los Angeles. After doctors
estimated he had two hours to live when he contracted meningitis, John
Lescroart decided, on his return to health, to take the risk of writing
full-time. Two years after that decision, his novel THE 13th JUROR hit
the New York Times bestseller list and stayed on the Publishers Weekly
bestseller list for three months.
