Lachlan Smith. Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2079-3
Set in 1999, Smith’s powerful legal thriller debut, the first in a series, grabs the reader by the throat and doesn’t let go. At a San Francisco restaurant, where Leo Maxwell, a freshly minted attorney, has met older brother Teddy, a local legend as
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Lachlan Smith. Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2216-2
At the start of Smith’s tight second Leo Maxwell mystery (after 2013’s Bear Is Broken), the young Oakland, Calif., attorney receives a collect call from Santa Rita Jail. The man on the other end introduces himself as Jamil Robinson and, because he...
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Lachlan Smith. Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2350-3
The complex family dynamics that Smith explored in his earlier books only become more intriguing in his superlative third Leo Maxwell mystery (after 2014’s Lion Plays Rough). In 1983, when he was 10 years old, Leo found his mother’s battered corpse...
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Lachlan Smith. Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2503-3
Fans of Scott Turow will relish Smith’s outstanding fourth Russian nesting doll of a whodunit featuring San Francisco lawyer Leo Maxwell (after 2015’s Fox Is Framed). Leo, who has left private practice to take a job in the public defender’s office,...
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Lachlan Smith. Mysterious, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2707-5
Smith again puts Leo Maxwell through the wringer in his superlative fifth mystery featuring the San Francisco attorney (after 2016’s Panther’s Prey). Newcomers are brought up to speed quickly with Leo’s complex backstory, which includes his...
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Lachlan Smith, read by R.C. Bray. Mysterious Press–HighBridge Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 6.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-62231-186-6
Narrator Bray perfectly embodies rough-around-the-edges criminal lawyer Leo Maxwell and brings his world to life, in this entertaining audio edition. Set in Oakland, Calif.. Teddy Maxwell, a once-brilliant but now mentally disabled attorney, lives...
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Lachlan Smith, read by R.C. Bray. HighBridge Audio, , unabridged, 6 CDs, 7 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-62231-747-9
Smith’s third exploration of the noir life of San Francisco attorney Leo Maxwell (after Lion Plays Rough) is a tense courtroom drama that focuses on the family tragedy that has haunted Leo and his older brother, Teddy, for over two decades. Recently
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