- Paperback: 500 pages
- Publisher: Feature; New edition edition (5 Feb 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747254575
- ISBN-13: 978-0747254577
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.2 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 922,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Successful lawyer Mark Dooher has killed his wife of 20 years in order to marry a beautiful young female colleague. But suspicions of his guilt begin to tear his life apart, as the homicide chief gets closer to the truth.
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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.
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MARK DOOHER COULDN'T TAKE HIS EYES OFF THE young woman who had just entered the dining room at Fior d'Italia and was being seated, facing them, at a table ten feet away. Read the first page
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MARK DOOHER COULDN'T TAKE HIS EYES OFF THE young woman who had just entered the dining room at Fior d'Italia and was being seated, facing them, at a table ten feet away. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Strong characters lead the way in this genuine page turner. A great build up and masterful misdirection, all without a ton of legal mumbo-jumbo, leaves you questioning out loud in a great who-dunnit fashion. You are quickly immersed in the plot, and as each chapter ends you'll ache to start the next. A gripping, multi-level and sometimes humourous suspense novel, this was my first Lescroart book, but definately not my last. A cracking read.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
A great legal thriller!
14 Dec 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
It has been a while since I have been able to sit down and just enjoy some good 'ol legal fiction - nothing heavy, nothing outrageous, just a good story. It was a pleasure to spend long hours reading this book and trying to figure out at first who really was guilty, who really did commit these murders.
The book builds up rather nicely to a somewhat predictable though still suspenseful (can this both be true?) climax that puts the book at a level that often surpasses that of John Grisham types. There is a depth to the characters that makes you root for them and want to keep on reading. I am impressed with Lescroart's ability to present a believable court case - especially since he is not a lawyer.
The actual facts are not entirely believable however. Dooher is so nice, so caring and yet the dark side that eventually comes out is a bit too jolting to seem believable. Perhaps that is the point, to make you think ANYONE could be a murderer. Still, I felt slightly cheated.
This is a good book to curl up with, however, and to want to finish right to the end.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
not a who done it..but how and why he done it.
18 May 1999
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Maybe I should not have read one of your readers reviews of this book before I read it myself, but I thought it might be good. Some your readers deadpaned the book through the first 300 pages. Most people assume who the killer is, but it is not enntirely certain until the last few chapters. I feel that GUILT is dealing with the loyalty of friendships and the trust broken...even by long time friends. Guilt is an excellent adventure into human relationships and how some people will use those relationships for their own selfishnefss. I love any type of courtroom novels, and there were some good ones here, but it was the mystery and well developed characters that kept me reading and turning the pages. This is one of the best "legal novels" written by a non lawyer. This is a must read for any serious legal, thrill reader!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
I hate to be the party pooper but...
27 Nov 2006
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Despite good experience with Lescroart in the past, despite the rave reviews on this site and despite the rave reviews on the back cover and a dozen rave reviews inside the front cover, I found myself only caring about what happened to Abe Glitsky. The slow-moving, plodding plotline only reinforced the fact that I did not care what happened to the Mark Dooher. Did he kill his wife? I don't know - it's mentioned in the first sentence in the plot synopsis on the back cover and 200 pages into the book she's still alive and I'm getting irritated at reading about Dooher's connivings to sleep with one of his young employees.
So, anyway, I read exactly 200 pages of this book. It was not easy. I was forcing myself to continue on, much like I would do with a college textbook. Then I came across the new Tony Hillerman book and I gladly dropped this one into the box of books that I'm dropping off at the Goodwill. Thank goodness I am now "Guilt" free!
I give this one a grade of F.
So, anyway, I read exactly 200 pages of this book. It was not easy. I was forcing myself to continue on, much like I would do with a college textbook. Then I came across the new Tony Hillerman book and I gladly dropped this one into the box of books that I'm dropping off at the Goodwill. Thank goodness I am now "Guilt" free!
I give this one a grade of F.
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