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When the rules of the hunt donxt apply A federal judge is murdered found shot to death in his homextogether with the body of his mistress The crime grips San Francisco To homicide inspector Devin Juhle it looks at first like a simple case of a wifexs jealousy and rage But Juhlexs investigation reveals that the judge had powerful enemies some of whom may have been willing to kill to prevent him from meddling in their affairs Meanwhile private investigator Wyatt Hunt Juhlexs best friend finds himself smitten with the beautiful and enigmatic Andrea Parisi A lawyer who recently has become a celebrity as a commentator on Trial TV Andrea has star power in spades and seems bound for a national anchor job in New York City Until Juhle discovers that Andrea too had a connection to the judge along with a client that had everything to gain from the judgexs death And then she suddenly disappears Andrea becomes Juhlexs prime suspect Wyatt Hunt thinks she may be a kidnap victim or worse another murder victim And far more than that shexs someone with whom he believes he may have a future As the search for Andrea intensifies Hunt gathers a loose band of friends and associates willing to bend and even break the rules leading to a chilling confrontation from which none of them might escape.
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John Lescroart (pronounced "less-kwah") is a big believer in hard work and single-minded dedication, although he'll acknowledge that a little luck never hurts. Now a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into 16 languages in more than 75 countries, John wrote his first novel in college and the second one a year after he graduated from Cal Berkeley in 1970The only hitch was that he didn't even try to publish either of these books until fourteen years later, when finally, at his wife Lisa's urging, he submitted Son of Holmes to New York publishers--and got two offers, one in hardcover, within six weeks!But about six years before that first hardcover publication, John's ambition to become a working novelist began to take shape. At that time, as Johnny Capo of Johnny Capo and His Real Good Band, he'd been performing his own songs for several years at clubs and saloons in the San Francisco Bay Area. On his 30th birthday, figuring that if he hadn't made it in music by then, he never would, he retired from the music business.He'd been writing all along, and didn't stop now, although his emphasis changed from music first, prose second, to the other way around. Within two months of his last musical gig, he finished a novel, Sunburn that drew on his experiences in Spain. Since John didn't know anyone in the publishing world, he sent the manuscript to his old high school English teacher, who was not enthusiastic. Fortunately, the teacher left the pages on his bedside table, and his wife picked them up and read them. She loved the book and submitted it in John's name to The Joseph Henry Jackson Award, given yearly by the San Francisco Foundation for Best Novel by a California author. Much to John's astonishment, SUNBURN beat out 280 other entrants, including Interview With A Vampire, for the prize.Though Sunburn wasn't to be published for another four years, and then only in paperback, the award changed John's approach to writing. He started to think he might make a living as an author, something he'd never previously believed possible for a "regular guy with no connections." He started paying for his writing habit by working a succession of "day jobs"--everything from a computer programmer with the telephone company, to Ad Director of Guitar Player Magazine, to moving man, house painter, bartender (at the real Little Shamrock bar in San Francisco), legal secretary, fundraising executive, and management consultant writing briefs on coal transportation for the Interstate Commerce Commission!!John moved to Los Angeles and in the next three years finished three long novels, the last of them featuring a private investigator who shared the name Dismas Hardy (and very little else) with the man who would become John's well-known attorney/hero. Since he'd gotten Sunburn published without using a literary agent (an old friend had shown it to a se
