- Hardcover: 339 pages
- Publisher: Headline Feature; First edition (8 July 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747221677
- ISBN-13: 978-0747221678
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.3 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,560,764 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Lawyer Dismas Hardy is thrown into a panic when his wife fails to turn up to collect the children from school. He discovers that she is being held in jail for contempt of court because she's refusing to divulge in a grand jury trial a confidence given to her by a friend, Ron Beaumont.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am a fan of John T Lescroart, although I haven't yet read all of his books. I read a lot of crime/legal fiction, and sometimes the plot just wraps up too nicely to be convincing. I then get impatient that I have wasted my time on such a book, and vow not to read any more. I did NOT feel disappointed in this one. Great attention was given to the plot, the details, and the emotions of the characters - even the 'baddies' came across as something other than two-dimensional stereotypes. I was kept guessing until close to the end (a rare thing these days)- what more could you ask for?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the first book of John Lescroart I have read but it won't be the last. Anyone trying to juggle a personal life with a demanding workload will sympathise with our hero, Dismas Hardy, who finds himself, against his better judgement, trying to clear the name of a man his wife seems to have developed relationship with. She has promised the man not to tell anyone something he has confided with her. Just what the relationship between this man and his wife is has to be pushed to the back boiler until Hardy gets to the bottom of whodunnit!
The plot quickly develops into a one of political intrigue with a court scene at the end forcing a confession out of the murderer Perry Mason style.
The thing I enjoyed most was the dialogue between him and his best friend, Abe Glitsky, who also happens to be Chief of Homicide. Very enjoyable.
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Nothing but the truth lived up to my expectations of this marvellous author. John T Lescroart is a relatively recent find of mine and I am reading my way through his Dismas Hardy books. They never disappoint.
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