Local Author & New York Times Best Seller's Book Comes Out Tuesday

Local author and New York Times best seller John Lescroart has a new book coming out on Tuesday, and you can pick up a copy at the Avid Reader if you'd like. 

Lescroart will also be featured in an event Tuesday night at Odd Fellows Hall, where he'll be signing copies of the book. 

"Capital Public Radio’s Donna Apidone will be hosting the event, which will include appetizers, live music, and a brief reading and book signing by Lescroart himself," wrote UC Davis's Dr. Andy Jones in a post on Davis Patch Monday. "If you care about writing and writers, as I do, perhaps I will see you tomorrow night at 6:30 at this event, or at one of the other readings and book-signings as John launches his 24th novel." 

Check out Lescroart's other work (more than 20 books) on Amazon or follow him on Twitter at @johnlescroart. 

Here's a description for The Ophelia Cut: 

Moses McGuire has good reason to be concerned about his beautiful twenty-three-year-old daughter, Brittany. She moves quickly from one boyfriend to the next, and always seems to prefer a new and mysterious stranger to a man she knows something about. But her most recent ex, Rick Jessup, isn’t willing to let her go, culminating in a terrible night when Brittany is raped.

Within twenty-four hours, Rick Jessup is dead, Moses McGuire is the prime suspect in the investigation, and Dismas Hardy has been hired to defend his brother-in-law. Making things even more complicated, McGuire has fallen off the wagon, and his stay in prison could bring to light old secrets that would destroy Hardy and his closest colleagues’ careers.

As the overwhelming evidence against McGuire piles up, Dismas Hardy focuses on planting doubt in the minds of the jurors—until, in a feat of legal ingenuity that is staggering in both its implications and its simplicity, Hardy sees a new way forward that might just save them all. But at what price?

For the first time since 2009, Dismas Hardy, the author’s most beloved protagonist, returns in a masterful novel that showcases Lescroart’s extraordinary story-telling gifts: a cast of flesh-and-blood characters, morally complex situations, and relentless, nail-biting suspense.