A Certain Justice

by John Lescroart

Book Overview

When the angry white mob poured out of the bar on San Francisco's Geary Street and surrounded an innocent black man, Kevin Shea was the only one who tried to stop them. He failed, and now, thanks to a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556114451
• ISBN13: 9781556114458
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 435 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

One of the most extraordinary openings I've ever read

Lescroart is becoming my favorite author in this genre and I have yet to read a book of his I didn't truly enjoy. This one though, is special because the story opening is the most dramatic I've ever read, in any genre. Totally riveting.

A great story with a greater message.

This book may be the best of this author's. I'm sorry I didn't read it earlier. Although the familiar Dismas Hardy is not the central figure of this book - you will recognize other central characters from other Lescroart work. I found this book to be very thought-provoking, fair, and unbiased in presenting the reader with a story that could happen in any city (and probably does happen to some extent more often than we wish to think). The reader cannot ignore the depth of fears, prejudices, attitudes, and personal agendas than hinder the progress of race relations in our country. You'll not be able to put the book down until you've read the last word.

Taut, tense, quite suspenseful, very hard to put down

I've become a great fan of John Lescroat's books and characters, and it was quite satisfying to see him have Dismas Hardy in such a background role and to have Abe Glitsky as a character so developed. This novel really grabbed me -- I found myself thinking about the twists and turns before I'd fall off to sleep at night, and I found myself really caring about the characters. I agree with another reviewer that it was just awful that the author revealed the end of another one of his more recent books as part of the sub-plot of this book.

will keep your attention

a friend gave me this to read and told me i would like it . . . i did . . . suspenseful with lots of twists and turns . . . one other reviwer said it was predictable . . . i did not find that to the the case . . . i now want to read other books by same author.

Great story, but I missed Dismas Hardy.

Compelling story of how justice can be manipulated by people in high places. Excellent character study of Abe Glitsky who has appeared in other John Lescroart books. I wish John had not revealed the outcome of his new book GUILT in relation to Wes Farrell's background in this book. Looks like he wrote the books in reverse order.