Header PromotionThe Hearing - John Lescroart
A young black woman, a rising star in San Francisco's legal arena is found dead at midnight. I white male junkie, brother-in-law of a newspaper writer, is found nearby with the woman's jewelry and the gun that shot her. But two shots were fired and the woman was only shot once.
Bi-racial homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky is called to the scene and what nobody else there knows is, the dead young woman is his daughter via youthful affair with a deceased African American congresswoman from California. Enraged, he roughs up the junkie, and demands his underlings get a confession, whch they do. Later he begins to believe the junkie didn't commit the murder, but they've got a confession he is responsible for.
The city's embattled DA, who has a history of going easy on criminals, is low in the polls and an election is coming up. She decides to go for the death penalty in this case. Defense attorney Dismas Hardy isn't even sure his clinet is innocent, still he crusades to find the truth and finds a shady lawyer might be involved in this murder, as well as a corrupt retired cop. What he ultimately finds is even more devious than that.
The book has some very well written family scenes. Abe Glitsy with his college age sons and his religious Jewish father after he suffers a heart attack which makes him slow in his investigation, allowing the bad guys to have the edge until the end. There are touching scenes of married affection in the city's night spots on the Hardy's weekly "date night." There is an almost horrifying scene where Dismas Hardy comes home to find his emotionally sensistive preteen daughter strewn across the bed sobbing hysterically and his wife distraught. The daughter had never even thought about suicide until the public school held an indebth student assembly on the subject, it's causes and prevention.
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