Another winner by John Lescroart. Lots of interaction between Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitzky, which is always entertaining. This one had a lot going on, a few surprises, and lots of generally good reading, or in my case, listening. By the way, the narrator of these audiobooks is very good, in my opinion, so if you want to try an audiobook, you can't go wrong with one in this series.

Sometimes I feel a bit guilty reading his books because so far, they all seem to have a happy ending. The good guys win, the bad guys lose. It makes things a little more predictable, but I don't know if that's really a bad thing if the story is entertaining. It doesn't matter, I'm going to keep reading his books and enjoying them, even if they aren't fine literature (whatever that is). ( )

John Lescroart's series with Dismas Hardy, wife Frannie, friend and Head Homicide Detective Abe Glitsky, and brother-in-law (Frannie's brother) Moses McGuire, are characters that the reader comes to know more intimately than in some legal thrillers. This novel accelerates the reader to the edge of their seat (and especially the series reader who knows that dedicated and loving Mother Frannie) would never miss picking up her children from school. Where is Frannie? For Dismas as husband, father, and particularly as defense attorney, it is the last place on earth that he would ever think to find his own wife and mother of his children. The legal venue of Nothing But the Truth takes the reader into the courtroom with a view of a grand jury setting, a corporate view of big oil industries, and the politics in the court house, the police department, and back to big oil companies for the political view. But between all those lines are the daily lives of the characters as they try to deal with the challenges of everyday life - work, family, friends - and always wondering if a work/home balance is even possible. ( )

A long, basically silly book about (primarily) lawyers duking it out verbally in front of judges. A book with many industry facts for those who scare easily about carcinogenic fuel additives.
Tip: I read the first 100 pages (the first 80 are the best, but beware the cover has a spoiler for this section- I would rip cover off.) and then skipped to the last 100 pages reducing the word load by 400 (almost) pages. In doing so, I was not confused about plot or characters, and I had no problems filling in the middle chunk. You might try the same. ( )

I liked it, but it was a bit long and overly complicated. I did find it intriguing with some rather clever mystery-story twists and turns. It was a page-turner, as they say. Not his best, but readable! ( )

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