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Title: Guilt by John Lescroart ISBN: 0-440-22281-8 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 10 August, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (36 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: not a who done it..but how and why he done it.
Comment: 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!
Rating: 2
Summary: John Lescroart is GUILTY!
Comment: ....of many faults in this book. I've read some of his priors without much enthusiasm, but due to his apparent popularity thought he might be worth another try. In GUILTY, Lescroart has a good plot with interesting characters, but somewhere around the middle you start to feel uneasy about how his supposedly intelligent cast speaks and acts. They are more like spoiled children, all lost in the miasma of their own self-image and their confusion about who they are, what they need to achieve, etc. It doesn't say if Mr. Lescroart is a lawyer, but in his courtroom his attorney acts like a Perry Mason at the same time he is proclaiming that in real life attorneys are not like Mason. He dissects and destroys his witnesses on cross, with alarming consistency. I do believe this book was written with the Simpson 'trial of the century' in mind, given the golf driving range and other similarities. Speaking of the driving range, one thing bugged me about the witness who did not see our hero there and who if believed would have brought doubt to the alibi. I kept expecting the witness to say he was a left-handed golfer which would have explained his clear view of the mat in question. It never was explained and so they might as well have edited that right out of the book; it was a non-issue. Regardless, by book's end I had the distinct impression Lescroart was more of a romance writer than straight fiction. All the pink moments were just too much for this reader. I don't think Lescroart is my kind of author.
Rating: 4
Summary: Weighty legal thriller
Comment: Mike Dooher is a successful and utterly self-centred San Francisco lawyer,head of a major legal firm which does the bulk of its business with the city Catholic archdiocese.He falls in love with Christine a young law student and sets out to marry her,not in the least phased by the fact he is already married,or that she is engaged to a young attorney in his employ.The only morality he acknowledges is his own success and desires.Realising he must murder his wife that is precisely what he does.He engages a friend WeS Farrell to defend him in the resulatant trial .Farrell despite becoming convinced of his guilt takes the case
There is no "who dun it"aspect to the book which revolves around "Will he get away with it and if so how and at what cost,professionally and personally?
The OJ overtones are clear but what gives the book its strengths are the characterization and its psychological depth.the lawyers are well drawn as is Abe Glitzky the Jewish/Afro-American cop who is a regular in Lescroarts books
I especially liked the depiction of the relationship between Farrell and Samantha a rape crises centre worker with whom he develops a relationship
Not blood and thunder but a well and carefully wrought book with something to say
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Title: A Certain Justice by John Lescroart ISBN: 0440221048 Publisher: Island Books Pub. Date: 02 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Mercy Rule by John Lescroart ISBN: 0440222826 Publisher: Island Books Pub. Date: 10 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Vig by John Lescroart ISBN: 0440209862 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 12 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The 13th Juror by John Lescroart ISBN: 0440220793 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Nothing but the Truth by John T. Lescroart ISBN: 0451202856 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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