Book description
It starts with a double homicide. Because of the high profiles of the
victims the mayor of San Francisco herself demands that a high-ranking
detective be put on the case. And so Abe Glitsky is thrust into the
controversial investigation. Dan Cuneo, the officer on the case, is
immediately wary of Glitsky and doesn't hide his distrust. Matters are
made worse when Cuneo starts to focus on his primary suspect - an old
girlfriend of Dismas Hardy. Convinced that Hardy's client is the wrong
suspect, Glitsky breaks ranks within the police department to continue
his own investigation. As Hardy's murder trial builds to its stunning
conclusion, Glitsky's search for the truth does more than fuel suspicion
against the two men. It reveals a trail of deception that leads beyond
San Francisco, where exposing desperate secrets can be the most deadly
offence. '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.
