John T. Lescroart

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1981
  • Latest Book:
    April 2022
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About the Author

John Lescroat was born in Houston, Texas and brought up in Texas, New York and Northern California. On graduating from U.C. Berkley, 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.
John Lescroart lives in Northern California, with his architect wife and their two children.

Full Series List in Order

Abe Glitsky

1 - A Certain Justice (1995)
2 - Guilt (May-1997)
3 - Damage (Jan-2011)

Auguste Lupa

1 - Son of Holmes (Apr-1986)
2 - Rasputin's Revenge (Jun-1987)

Dismas Hardy

1 - Dead Irish (1989)
2 - The Vig (1990)
3 - Hard Evidence (May-1994)
4 - The 13th Juror (Jul-1995)
5 - The Mercy Rule (Sep-1998)
6 - Nothing but the Truth (Oct-1999)
7 - The Hearing (Apr-2001)
8 - The Oath (Jan-2002)
9 - The First Law (Jan-2003)
10 - The Second Chair (Jan-2004)
11 - The Motive (Dec-2004)
12 - Betrayal (Jan-2008)
13 - A Plague of Secrets (Jul-2009)
14 - The Ophelia Cut (May-2013)
15 - The Keeper (May-2014)
16 - The Fall (May-2015)
17 - Poison (Feb-2018)
18 - The Rule of Law (Jan-2019)
19 - The Missing Piece (Apr-2022)

Rebecca Hardy

1 - The Fall (May-2015)

Wyatt Hunt

1 - The Hunt Club (Jan-2006)
2 - Treasure Hunt (Jan-2010)
3 - The Hunter (Jan-2012)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Sunburn

    On Spain's Costa Brava, passion and intrigue are everywhere- especially in the hearts of those who dwell there. As the dictator Franco teeters on the edge of overthrow, two couples are entwined. One is a husband and wife bored with the existence they...

  • Son of Holmes

    Auguste Lupa - 1

    THE TIME: 1915, World War I rages on. THE PLACE: Valence, France, a quiet backwater of gaslit streets and crowded cafes. THE GAME The search is on for the world's most dangerous assassin. Only one man can match wits with a criminal of suc...

  • Rasputin's Revenge

    Auguste Lupa - 2

    Auguste Lupa, reputed son of the greatest detective of all time-and possessor of a brilliant deductive mind in his own right-is summoned to the court of the Czar. There, with a bit of assistance from none other than Holmes and Watson, he untangles a ...

  • Dead Irish

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    Dismas Hardy - 1

    For former San Francisco cop Dismas Hardy, Guinness Stout with Bass Ale is the drink of choice, but a straight Irish whiskey will do anytime. The news of young Eddie Cochran's death calls for a double. The cops think it's suicide, but even to a lapse...

  • The Vig

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    Dismas Hardy - 2

    PAYBACK IS MURDER A beautiful woman paid it with her body. A seedy lawyer used somebody else's money. It's the vig - the exorbitant interest mob loan sharks take on their money. Now, in the city by the Bay, everyone has to pay... Down-and-out-...

  • Hard Evidence

    Dismas Hardy - 3

    The first evidence is found in the belly of a shark: a hand sporting a jade ring. The hand belongs to a Silicon Valley billionaire. When the rest of his bullet-ridden body washes up on shore, Dismas Hardy, assistant D.A., is suddenly plunged into S...

  • A Certain Justice

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    Abe Glitsky - 1

    In a city of tolerance and hope, everything came apart. One man died at the hands of another. The next victim was killed by a mob. Now fires burn in the night, helicopters throb through the air, and politicians, lawyers and cops vie for the remnants ...

  • The 13th Juror

    Dismas Hardy - 4

    HE IS OBSESSED WITH HER INNOCENCE. HE WILL BE DESTROYED BY HER GUILT. The walls were champagne. The house was immaculate. A prosperous doctor lived there with his son and his beautiful wife. But the elegant walls hid a family's secret. a wife's ...

  • Guilt

    Abe Glitsky - 2

    Mark Dooher is a prosperous San Francisco attorney and a prominent Catholic, the last person anyone would suspect of a brutal crime. But Dooher, a paragon of success and a master of all he touches, is about to be indicted for murder. Charged with ...



  • The Mercy Rule

    Dismas Hardy - 5

    JUSTICE 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 client changes everything. COMPASSION Gr...

  • Nothing but the Truth

    Dismas Hardy - 6

    When San Francisco attorney Dismas Hardy gets a call saying his wife never picked the kids up from school, he's worried. Frannie's a great mother. Turns out there's a good explanation: She's in jail. Unbeknownst to her husband, Frannie has just ap...

  • The Hearing

    Dismas Hardy - 7

    The call comes at midnight. An up-and-coming lawyer has been found dead in a dark alley, a homeless heroin addict holding a gun and lingering over her body. It looks like a robbery gone awry, a tragic and petty murder. But for homicide lieutenant Abe...

  • The Oath

    Dismas Hardy - 8

    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 the rumors ab...

  • The First Law

    Dismas Hardy - 9

    They date back to the wilder days of San Francisco's vigilante past--the Patrol Specials, a private police force that keeps watch for paying clients. Unfortunately, Sam Silverman--an elderly pawnshop owner and a friend of Lt. Abe Glitsky's father--co...

  • The Second Chair

    Dismas Hardy - 10

    Although he appears to have reached the top, Dismas Hardy, rainmaker and managing partner of his thriving San Francisco law firm, has lost his faith in the justice system. When his young associate Amy Wu brings in a high profile, controversial double...

  • The Motive

    Dismas Hardy - 11

    With their park view and their old-fashioned detail, the Victorian houses on San Francisco's Steiner Street were highly valuable. With their wooden construction, they were also highly vulnerable. So when Paul Hanover's multimillion dollar home went u...

  • The Hunt Club

    Wyatt Hunt - 1

    At first, The Hunt Club had a membership of one: private investigator Wyatt Hunt. Since then, others have joined, both on and off the official payroll. Their common interest is obtaining justice--one way or another. But they don't mind having a littl...

  • The Suspect

    The spouse is always the first suspect. But as his wife's body lies next to the hot tub at their San Francisco home, Stuart Gorman seems confident the cops will recognize his innocence. So confident, in fact, that he freely discusses Caryn's recent r...

  • Betrayal

    Dismas Hardy - 12

    John Lescroart's millions of fans have been waiting three years for the return of San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy and his buddy, detective Abe Glitsky and in that time John Lescroart's popularity has continued to soar. Now, Hardy and Glit...



  • A Plague of Secrets

    Dismas Hardy - 13

    Bay Beans West, the coffee shop at the corner of Haight and Ashbury, is always crowded with customers, and manager Dylan Vogler has done very well for himself. Maybe too well. After he's found dead behind the shop -- still wearing a backpack full of ...

  • Treasure Hunt

    Wyatt Hunt - 2

    Dominic Como is dead. The politically connected society-page star, who ran one of San Francisco's biggest charities, has been bludgeoned to death -- his body hidden in plain sight in the upscale Marina District. His distraught widow and bereaved frie...

  • The Gato Conundrum

    in First Thrills

    New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. Showcasing many of the organization's bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, h...

  • Damage

    Abe Glitsky - 3

    From New York Times bestseller John Lescroart comes an explosive look at the seductive power of revenge and the terrible costs of justice. The Curtlees are the most powerful family in San Francisco, unscrupulous billionaires who ve lined every imp...

  • The Hunter

    Wyatt Hunt - 3

    New York Times bestseller John Lescroart delivers a dark, intimate thriller about the price we put on family and the terrible costs of seeking the truth. Raised by loving adoptive parents, San Francisco private investigator Wyatt Hunt never had an...

  • The Ophelia Cut

    Dismas Hardy - 14

    WHEN A BRUTAL RAPIST IS MURDERED, A LOVING FATHER STANDS ACCUSED OF THE CRIME. DEFENSE ATTORNEY DISMAS HARDY MUST DEFEND HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW AND OLD FRIEND MOSES McGUIRE IN A THRILLING CASE THAT HITS FAR TOO CLOSE TO HOME. Moses McGuire has good re...

  • The Keeper

    Dismas Hardy - 15

    From New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting novel featuring Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky on the hunt for clues about a woman who has gone missing. On the evening before Thanksgiving, Hal Chase, a guard in the San Francisco Co...

  • Silent Hunt: Wyatt Hunt vs. Joe Trona

    In this short story from the thrilling anthology FaceOff, John Lescroart and T. Jefferson Parker team up for the first time ever, along with their characters -- Wyatt Hunt, hero of three of Lescorart’s Hunt Club thrillers; and Joe Trona from Parker...

  • The Fall

    Dismas Hardy - 16
    Rebecca Hardy - 1

    From New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting new novel of legal suspense featuring Dismas Hardy and his daughter, Rebecca, now grown up and an associate in Hardy’s law firm. Late one night, a teenage African American foster ...

  • Fatal

    From New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting standalone novel about the unexpected, shattering, and lethal consequences of a one-night stand on a seemingly happily married couple. Kate loves her life. At forty-four, she’s ha...



  • Poison

    Dismas Hardy - 17

    In John Lescroart’s latest thriller, San Francisco attorney Dismas Hardy is called upon to investigate the murder of a wealthy man whose heirs are all potential suspects. Dismas Hardy is looking forward to easing into retirement and reconnecting...

  • The Rule of Law

    Dismas Hardy - 18

    In John Lescroart’s electrifying novel, attorney Dismas Hardy is called to defend the least likely suspect of his career: his trusted assistant who is suddenly being charged as an accessory to murder. Dismas Hardy knows something is amiss with h...

  • The Missing Piece

    Dismas Hardy - 19

    USA TODAY BESTSELLERThe beloved New York Times bestselling Dismas Hardy series returns with a “perfect piece of entertainment from a master storyteller” (Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author) about a relentlessly twisty murder mystery.N...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John T. Lescroart has published 32 books.

John T. Lescroart does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Missing Piece, was published in April 2022.

The first book by John T. Lescroart, Sunburn, was published in January 1981.

Yes. John T. Lescroart has 5 series.
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