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At 2:15 on a Wednesday afternoon in late September, Dismas Hardy sat on the customer side of the bar at the Little Shamrock and worked the corners of his dart flights with a very fine emery board. Read the first page
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At 2:15 on a Wednesday afternoon in late September, Dismas Hardy sat on the customer side of the bar at the Little Shamrock and worked the corners of his dart flights with a very fine emery board. Read the first page
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Memorable characters. Good sense of pace keeps up the interest. Lead characters are nicely vulnerable types, not too heroic. A good storyline for a Robert Mitchum film noir.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I am never disappointed by any books from John T Lescroart. He develops characters and storylines like no other author I have read.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
good, gritty mystery
29 Mar 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The customers who panned this book obviously thought of John Lescroart as a legal thriller writer only. But before he put Dismas back into the courtroom, Lescroart's books were sort of Irish Elmore Leonard mysteries. That may be jarring for people, but come on, folks! Are you really so bound into formula that your brains can't switch gears and enjoy this?
The Vig is a fine mystery with a complex plot, endearing characters, and great dialogue.
Anyone who can call this a Grisham wannabe isn't thinking, and recommending a Ludlum wannabe like The Day After Tomorrow is CERTAINLY comparing apples to cinder blocks.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
A Two Day Read
15 Jan 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Having started with later Lescroart books, I already knew Dismas Hardy, his main character. In the latter books he was already married to Frannie with hints about a troubled past. Going Back to The Vig at the beginning of the story he is getting back together with his first wife but still in his bummed out mode. He is tending bar with his friend Moses when Rusty Ingraham walks in one day telling him a tale about a con who is to be released that has promised to come looking to kill the both of them. Actually Rusty has come up with a complicated scam designed to allow him to disappear and Dismas to be the one to point the finger at the ex-con for killing him. There are several semmingly unrelated murders that keep going back to a mob enforcer who has been collecting "The Vig"...the ever increasing interest on loan sharking. Dismas' friend, Abe doesn't take the threat on Hardy's life seriously enough and it falls to Hardy to prove that Baker, the ex-con did not commit the murders he is accused of. The various characters are well developed and the story works well. The challenge of solving the mysteries helps to rehabilitate Dismas Hardy and sees him begin a relationship with Frannie who becomes his wife in future novels. If you didn't read it along the way, read it now. Lescroart is great reading.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Typical Dismas Hardy Story - Worth Your Time
28 Feb 2003
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This is one of the early books in the trials and tribulations of Dismas Hardy and even if you have read the later books, it is worth reading. The mystery created in the book is interesting, you learn the history of his eventual marriage to Frannie (which happens in other books), and you learn more about the relationship between Hardy and Lt. Abe Glitsky. Not a bad bargain for the price of a paperback.
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