**John Lescroart *is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous legal thrillers and mysteries, most of them set in contemporary San Francisco. Among his novels are The Fall , The Keeper, The Ophelia Cut, * The Hunt Club, The Second Chair, The First Law, Nothing But the Truth,and Dead Irish, a...

**John Lescroart *is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous legal thrillers and mysteries, most of them set in contemporary San Francisco. Among his novels are The Fall , The Keeper, The Ophelia Cut, * The Hunt Club, The Second Chair, The First Law, Nothing But the Truth,and Dead Irish, as well as two novels featuring Auguste Lupa, the reputed son of Sherlock Holmes.