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A review by martyfried
The Second Chair by John Lescroart
4.0
I really enjoy all of John Lescroart's books, especially the ones with Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky. Glitsky has about the driest sense of humor I know of; many would say he has none at all, so he's a good straight man for Hardy's jokes and pranks, which are fairly constant.
This book, like most of them, starts off with some poor, undeserving soul getting into deep trouble, where things look very bleak to impossible. Sometimes Hardy's clients are so apparently guilty that even his friend Glitsky won't believe that he's not simply trying to get a guilty client off. In this story, the client is a 17 year old boy charged with a double homicide. He's been carrying a gun around for weeks, he was writing a book that described the crime almost exactly, etc. He's looking at life without parole, and facing a best case of 8 years incarceration. Even his lawyer is sure he's guilty. Sad, but no problem - Dismas Hardy comes to the rescue, as usual.
This book, like most of them, starts off with some poor, undeserving soul getting into deep trouble, where things look very bleak to impossible. Sometimes Hardy's clients are so apparently guilty that even his friend Glitsky won't believe that he's not simply trying to get a guilty client off. In this story, the client is a 17 year old boy charged with a double homicide. He's been carrying a gun around for weeks, he was writing a book that described the crime almost exactly, etc. He's looking at life without parole, and facing a best case of 8 years incarceration. Even his lawyer is sure he's guilty. Sad, but no problem - Dismas Hardy comes to the rescue, as usual.