John Lescroart is the author of nineteen novels, including most recently BETRAYAL, the fourteenth book in the San Francisco based Dismas Hardy/Abe Glitsky series, and his twelfth New York Times bestseller. His books have been translated into twenty languages in more than seventy-five countries, and his short stories appear in many anthologies.
His first novel, SUNBURN, won the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson Award for best novel by a California author, and DEAD IRISH and THE 13TH JUROR were nominees for the Shamus and Anthony Best Mystery Novel, respectively. GUILT was a Readers Digest Select Edition choice. THE MERCY RULE and NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH have been major market Book Club selections. THE SUSPECT, chosen by the American Author’s Association as its 2007 Book of the Year, was also the 2007 One Book Sacramento choice of the Sacramento Library Foundation. Each of the last several of John’s books have been Main Selections of one or more of the Literary Guild, Mystery Guild, and Book of the Month Club.
Outside of the book world, John loves to cook. His original recipes have appeared in Gourmet Magazine and in the cookbook “A Taste of Murder.” (He also wrote the forward to Francine Brevetti’s paean to the famous San Francisco eatery Fior d’Italia entitled The Fabulous Fior: 100 Years in an Italian Kitchen.) In 2000, John founded CrowArt Records to facilitate releasing his music and that of his friends – to date, there are five CDs under the CrowArt label.
John and his wife, Lisa Sawyer, live in Northern California.
