Abe Glitsky

About the Abe Glitsky series

Abe Glitsky -- Dismas Hardy's oldest friend, a Black and Jewish homicide cop who rises to become chief of San Francisco's homicide detail -- takes the lead role in his own three-book strand within John Lescroart's wider San Francisco legal-thriller universe. Where the numbered Dismas Hardy novels usually pair courtroom defense work with police investigation, these three books push Glitsky's own investigative and moral struggles to the centre: A Certain Justice opens with a wrongful lynching that exposes the city's racial fault lines, Guilt follows Glitsky's pursuit of a prominent, seemingly unimpeachable attorney he's certain committed murder, and Damage, published over a decade later, brings back a wealthy, dangerous family from Glitsky's past for a case that endangers his own family directly.