John Lescroart (;

Awards and honors

Lescroart's first novel, Sunburn (1981), won the San Francisco Foundation's Joseph Henry Jackson Award for best as yet unpublished novel by a California author, beating Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire. Dead Irish (1989) and The 13th Juror (1994) were nominees for the Shamus and Anthony Awards for Best Mystery Novel, respectively; additionally The 13th Juror is included in the International Thriller Writers publication "100 Must-Read Thrillers Of All Time." Hard Evidence (1993) is named in The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List. His novel Guilt (1997) was a Reader's Digest Select Edition choice. The Mercy Rule (1998), Nothing But the Truth (2000), and The Suspect (2007) have been major market Book Club selections. The Suspect was also the 2007 One Book Sacramento choice of the Sacramento Library Foundation, and was chosen by the American Author's Association as its 2007 Book of the Year. Damage (2011) made Entertainment Weekly's "Must List."

In 2007, Lescroart was awarded the American Author Medal for The Suspect. In 2008, he was part of the California Library Laureates, in association with the California State Assembly. He has twice been the spotlighted guest at the International Thriller Writer's Thrillerfest, and in 2012, he was the guest of honor at Left Coast Crime.

In 1998, he appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories, edited by Sue Grafton, for "The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra".

Libraries Unlimited has included Lescroart in its publication The 100 Most Popular Thriller and Suspense Authors.

Eighteen of John Lescroart's novels have been on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Bibliography

Auguste Lupa series

[It is strongly hinted in these books that Lupa (the son of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler) later becomes Nero Wolfe, although Wolfe is never mentioned by name.]

  1. Son of Holmes (Donald I. Fine, 1986)
  2. Rasputin's Revenge (Donald I. Fine, 1987)

Lescroart's most popular works are a series of legal and crime dramas taking place in and around San Francisco, beginning with the thriller Dead Irish. They center around the adventures of ex-cop and lawyer, Dismas Hardy, and his best friend, officer Abe Glitsky, among many other friends and associates. His newest works introduce Wyatt Hunt, working as a private investigator. Although they are often performing together in the story, the books can be distinguished by which character is the main protagonist. Hardy's daughter, Rebecca, first appears as the main character in the novel The Fall, following her graduation from law school and joining Hardy's law firm as an associate attorney.

  1. Dead Irish (Donald I. Fine, 1989)
  2. The Vig (Donald I. Fine, 1990)
  3. Hard Evidence (Donald I. Fine, 1993)
  4. The 13th Juror (Donald I. Fine, 1994)
  5. The Mercy Rule (Delacorte, 1998)
  6. Nothing But the Truth (Delacorte, 1999)
  7. The Hearing (Dutton, 1999)
  8. The Oath (Dutton, 2002)
  9. The First Law (Dutton, 2003)
  10. The Second Chair (Dutton, 2004)
  11. The Motive (Dutton, 2004)
  12. Betrayal (Dutton, 2007)
  13. A Plague of Secrets (Dutton, 2009)
  14. The Ophelia Cut (Atria Books 2013)
  15. The Keeper (Atria, 2014)
  16. Poison (Atria, 2018)
  17. The Rule of Law (Atria, 2019)
  18. The Missing Piece (Atria, 2022)
  1. The Fall (Atria, 2015)
  1. A Certain Justice (Donald I. Fine, 1995)
  2. Guilt (Delacorte, 1996)
  3. Damage (Dutton, 2011)

The events of A Certain Justice happen chronologically between Parts IV and V of Guilt.

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