A Certain Justice
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 527
- ISBN-13
- 9780451217769
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Certain Justice opens John Lescroart's Abe Glitsky series in 1995 at 527 pages with a wrongful lynching that exposes San Francisco's racial fault lines, pushing Glitsky -- Dismas Hardy's oldest friend, a Black and Jewish homicide cop -- to the center of his own investigative and moral struggles rather than the courtroom-focused role he plays in the numbered Hardy novels.
Key facts about A Certain Justice
A Certain Justice is a novel by John Lescroart. Readers have had it since 1 January 1995. It runs to 527 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of A Certain Justice. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780451217769 to find the main one.
A Certain Justice is book 1 of 3 in the Abe Glitsky series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Damage is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 1 January 2011.
Additionally, John Lescroart writes Auguste Lupa, Dismas Hardy and Wyatt Hunt as separate series. Those series sit on our historical mystery, legal thriller and crime fiction shelves. Meanwhile, The Missing Piece is the latest published John Lescroart book on file, from 1 January 2021.
About John Lescroart
John Lescroart (pronounced "less-KWAH") was born in Houston, Texas, in 1948 and grew up mostly in California. Before becoming a full-time novelist he worked as a computer programmer, a bartender and in a variety of other jobs, publishing his debut novel, Sunburn, in 1981, followed by two historical mysteries starring Auguste Lupa, a detective implied to be Sherlock Holmes's son. See every John Lescroart book in order.
Its place in Abe Glitsky
A Certain Justice is book 1 in the Abe Glitsky series. It is followed by Guilt. See the full Abe Glitsky reading order.
Abe Glitsky -- Dismas Hardy's oldest friend, a Black and Jewish homicide cop who rises to become chief of San Francisco's homicide detail -- takes the lead role in his own three-book strand within John Lescroart's wider San Francisco legal-thriller universe. Where the numbered Dismas Hardy novels usually pair courtroom defense work with police investigation, these three books push Glitsky's own investigative and moral struggles to the centre: A Certain Justice opens with a wrongful lynching that exposes the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780451217769