Dismas Hardy · Book 1

Dead Irish

by John Lescroart

Published
1 January 1989
Pages
326
ISBN-13
9781574903584
Type
novel

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About this book

Dead Irish is the book that opens John Lescroart's Dismas Hardy series, a legal thriller published in 1989 at 326 pages. It's followed in the reading order by The Vig, the second entry in a series that has run to nineteen books.

Its place in Dismas Hardy

Dead Irish is book 1 in the Dismas Hardy series. It is followed by The Vig. See the full Dismas Hardy reading order.

Dismas Hardy is a former beat cop, former Vietnam veteran and one-time bartender who eventually became one of San Francisco's most formidable defense attorneys, and John Lescroart has built a nineteen-novel legal-thriller series around him and the wide circle of friends, colleagues and rivals who orbit his life -- most notably Abe Glitsky, his best friend since childhood, who rises through the ranks to become the SFPD's Chief of Homicide. Where many legal-thriller series repeat the same courtroom formula book…

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