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Treasure Hunt (Hunt Club Mystery #3)
Mickey Dade hates deskwork, but that's all he's been doing at Wyatt Hunt's private investigative service, The Hunt Club. His itch to be active is answered when a body is discovered: It's Dominic Como, one of San Francisco's most high profile activists ? a charismatic man known as much for his expensive suits as his work on a half-dozen nonprofit boards. One ?person of inte...more
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January 28th 2010
by Brilliance Audio
(first published January 1st 2010)
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Treasure Hunt by John Lescroart is the second book in the Hunt Club series. It's set in San Francisco at a flailing detective agency.
Wyatt Hunt has been sleeping in his car and cutting as many corners as he can to keep the Hunt Club afloat. Things might turn around if he can stay in business long enough to figure out who killed Dominic Como, a high powered activist.
The reason the Hunt Club is on the case at all is because the one remaining employee besides Hunt himself, M...more
Wyatt Hunt has been sleeping in his car and cutting as many corners as he can to keep the Hunt Club afloat. Things might turn around if he can stay in business long enough to figure out who killed Dominic Como, a high powered activist.
The reason the Hunt Club is on the case at all is because the one remaining employee besides Hunt himself, M...more
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When Dominic Como, one of San Francisco's Movers and Shakers, is found bludgeoned to death, Wyatt Hunt and his team of investigators are on the job. Actually, the agency--the Hunt Club--has fallen on hard times and the "team" now consists of only one investigator, Mickey Dade who conveniently discovers the body.
Mickey convinces Hunt that the crime provides an excellent opportunity to revive the agency's fortunes. Como was deeply involved with a number of the city's major char...more
Mickey convinces Hunt that the crime provides an excellent opportunity to revive the agency's fortunes. Como was deeply involved with a number of the city's major char...more
I won this book from GoodReads but it never arrived. Then someone gave me a copy so I got to read it anyway. Although this is the second Wyatt Hunt novel, it didn't suffer at all from my not having read the first one.
This is about a private detective service in San Francisco called The Hunt Club which has been suffering from a lack of business since the economy tanked. It's so bad that Wyatt Hunt has been dreading the day when he will have to let employees Mickey Dade and his sister ...more
This is about a private detective service in San Francisco called The Hunt Club which has been suffering from a lack of business since the economy tanked. It's so bad that Wyatt Hunt has been dreading the day when he will have to let employees Mickey Dade and his sister ...more
It is not a good or profitable time for Wyatt Hunt’s investigative services. Due to some bad luck, most of his clients have disappeared. Mickey Dade is still hanging with Wyatt but his sister Tamara who ran the office has walked out. There is a sharp turn of events when Mickey discovers the body of Dominic Como. Mickey was just walking along the edge of a lagoon when he saw the body near the water’s surface.
Dominic Como was a prominent civic activist and founded or sat on the boa...more
Dominic Como was a prominent civic activist and founded or sat on the boa...more
The day he found the body, Mickey Dade woke up under a tree on Mount Tamalpais. (Treasure Hunt, Dutton, 2010)
This is the opening line to New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart’s latest novel, Treasure Hunt, a whodunit tunneling beneath the layers of San Francisco’s fictional world of nonprofit greed and corruption. Like many Lescroart novels, this novel delves into more than story, plot and character—it thematically links us to the real world. In this story, money and power c...more
This is the opening line to New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart’s latest novel, Treasure Hunt, a whodunit tunneling beneath the layers of San Francisco’s fictional world of nonprofit greed and corruption. Like many Lescroart novels, this novel delves into more than story, plot and character—it thematically links us to the real world. In this story, money and power c...more
Mickey Dade is on his way to work at the failing PI firm The Hunt Club when he finds the body of prominent philanthropist Dominic Como. Spinning this into at attempt to improve the fortunes of his employer, Mickey and the Hunt Club become a clearing House for tips called into the help line, set up for folks who may not want to talk to the police. Soon however, The Hunt club finds themselves investigating the actual murder and tehn a second murder. All arrows point to Alicia Thorpe, but Micke...more
Although this is John Lescroart's 20th novel, it's the first of his that I've read. Lescroart clearly likes his characters as much as he does his mysteries, as he fully fleshes out each of his main actors. Their relationships get as much care as does the "whodunnit" mystery of two murders. I enjoyed spending time with "people" so fully crafted and was only slightly let down by a formulaic ending. The political wranglings surrounding the non-profit benefits organizations make ...more
John Lescroart writes character-driven thrillers set in San Francisco. He is, in his own way, a definitive writer of the city. When I think of writers who capture the feel of San Francisco I always think of John Lescroart.
This is the second in a relatively new series by Lescroart and it's a pretty good book. His strengths are on display here with great characterization and wonderful setting of place. Where the book is not up to his usual standard is in its plotting - there's conv...more
This is the second in a relatively new series by Lescroart and it's a pretty good book. His strengths are on display here with great characterization and wonderful setting of place. Where the book is not up to his usual standard is in its plotting - there's conv...more
I love Lecroart's San Francisco mysteries, and the Hunt Club grouping is a nice addition to Dis and Abe's stories. The setting and the reappearance of familiar characters and places are part of the charm and fun.
This was a decent addition, but lacking in some respects. I appreciate how Mickey is important to Wyatt, but is he really qualified to be out investigating? I found that part implausible enough to be an issue. I didn't care for Alicia; her stories were ridiculous and the ...more
This was a decent addition, but lacking in some respects. I appreciate how Mickey is important to Wyatt, but is he really qualified to be out investigating? I found that part implausible enough to be an issue. I didn't care for Alicia; her stories were ridiculous and the ...more
This book features recurring character Wyatt Hunt, my favorite of the usual cast of suspects from John Lescroart's books. Wyatt's PI firm, the Hunt Club, is flagging in the wake of a problem case, to the point that he is thinking of closing up shop. The Hunt Club gets a second chance in the wake of the murder of a prominent philanthropist when Wyatt's junior associate, Mick, comes up with a scheme to get the Hunt Club involved in the investigation. Things get sticky when the investigation tur...more
PI Wyatt Hunt, and his business, The Hunt Club, are on the ropes. His client list has dried up because of some unfavorable publicity, and it looks like curtains for Wyatt and his tiny staff. But they're thrown a life preserver following the homicide of one of San Francisco's most prominent leaders, philanthropist Dominic Como. A large reward (the eponymous treasure) has been offered for information leading to the apprehension of the killer, and The Hunt Club is hired to screen and interview the...more
This is the second book I have read by this author. I am glad I read the other book called "The Hunt Club' first as it gave me a better understanding how this Private eye came to be. I like the characters in this book as they are 'real'. The reelationships they share are complicated just as relationships are in life.
This book gives a brief glimpse into the world of fundraising and some of the graft and political gains that goes along witht he 'big money makes'.
The story...more
This book gives a brief glimpse into the world of fundraising and some of the graft and political gains that goes along witht he 'big money makes'.
The story...more
The Hunt Club, Wyatt Hunt’s private detective agency is having hard times and on the verger of going under when sometime operative and driver Mickey Hunt discovers the body of a prominent mover and shaker in the charity business. It then develops that the sister of one of his friends in his cooking class was maybe the last person to see him alive. Eventually Mickey and the rest of the Hunt Club get entangled in the search for the murderer and in trying to clear the sister who is the prime suspe...more
This was a first reads giveaway and I was excited to get it because I'd not heard of the author--yet he has been quite prolific--and the plot sounded interesting. I was not disappointed. An important figure in a large charitable fund is discovered,by a PI's assistant, face down in a San Francisco lagoon,which is about to drained, much to the consternation of lovers of ducks. With the opening scene of a public protest and discovery of a dead body the reader is pulled into a cast of characters an...more
Finished "Treasure Hunt" by John Lescroart. I think I'm going to give up on the private eye/murder mystery genre, and this book is to blame. I picked it up solely because the project I'm doing at work is codenamed Treasure Hunt. By the time I was halfway through, I was tired of it. I couldn't wait for it to be over. The dialog was lame and repetitive, and the author seemed to have some kind of food fetish. I *really* don't need to be walked through the entire recipe your character is p...more
Am happily awaiting my First Reads copy--was notified today!
Just finished the book and found the widely-spaced lines and print size of this paperback edition a pleasure. Also a pleasure was the setting of the book--San Francisco and a return to Lou the Greek's with its bizarre specials. This is the second installment of the Hunt Club series and I will go back and read the first one. Mickey Dade, an up-and-coming chef whose day job is with the Hunt Club PI firm was an interesting charac...more
Just finished the book and found the widely-spaced lines and print size of this paperback edition a pleasure. Also a pleasure was the setting of the book--San Francisco and a return to Lou the Greek's with its bizarre specials. This is the second installment of the Hunt Club series and I will go back and read the first one. Mickey Dade, an up-and-coming chef whose day job is with the Hunt Club PI firm was an interesting charac...more
A "who-dunnit" that actually caught me by surprise...This book actually follows an earlier mystery novel using most of the same characters in which the crap hit the fan @ the end of the last book & this one begins months after...the characters are dealing w/ the aftermath of the storyline in the last book (not all good) which I found refreshing as real life doesn't always tidy-up like it does in Hollywood. The scene toward the end, though, when the real killer emerges is a little like ...more
In this book one of the wheeler dealers in the San Francisco non-profit world is found dead. Enter the Hunt Club the P.I. agency run by Wyatt Hunt. His associate Mickey Dade found the body and one of the prime suspects is his friends sister. The agency becomes involved in the hunt for the killer with a large number of suspects taking center stage. The Hunt Books by Lescroart are not nearly as good as his Dismas Hardy/Abe Glitsky novels.
Thanks, Penguin Group for participating in the Goodreads Giveaway program. This was a lucky win for me! I wanted a copy to add to my collection of novels with characters who drive Mini Coopers, my favorite little car, when this one fell into my lap. Wyatt Hunt garages his Mini right in his warehouse living quarters.
The story was good, but a little slow in places. References to the first novel involving these characters as a group, The Hunt Club, made me feel that reading the previous book was i
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This is a quick read - the plot isn't quite as good as some of Lescroart's others, but it is worth a read. Its a caper involving Hunt, a private detective and his main side kick, Mickey. They investigate a murder and learn how money is being laundered through non-profit organizations in San Francisco. Some interesting twists and turns. Its set, as most of Lescroart's stories are, in San Francisco.
The Hunt Club detective agency is in dire straits, until Mickey comes up with an idea to broker information regarding and handle a reward for a recent murder. I had a hard time buying the storyline. Mickey is going to culinary school, working at the detective agency only as a fill-in for his sister, and yet he is out interrogating suspects, etc, etc. The tidy bring all the suspects together to get a confession at the end was pretty hokey. It was okay. But just. Some language.
He's been recommended to me before since I like murder mysteries. Liked the San Francisco setting, all the familiar landmarks. And the corrupt, graft-filled City of SF world of politics, entitlement and nonprofits rang true. Pretty good story, just had trouble staying focused. Might have been me at this point. Will try him again, but not in a position to recommend yea or nay on him yet.
Intrigue & book-cooking in the SF non-profit world. Did the hot, damaged girl do it? Or was it the rich, jealous widow? Maybe the unbalanced, ambitious power couple? The smooth, power-hungry consigliere? The ex-con with access? I like the Hunt books less than the Hardy books, and I can always count on Lescroart to make me want to fire up the old cast iron skillet.
Missing Charitable funds, social elite, troubled relationships, a philandering husband murdered. All of these ingredients made for an exciting story set in San Francisco. I had seen this writer on the shelves many times while book hunting, this time I picked one up and have found a writer worth reading in the future.
I appreciate winning this book from Goodreads, but it was a tough read for me. Unfortunately, while the concept was interesting and this author is obviously accomplished, the characters were less developed than I expected, and aspects of the story made it difficult to read. A few things with which I struggled: One of the main characters parked in handicap spaces and viewed this as a seeming accomplishment, he fell in love with a murder suspect after knowing her for one week, and he did not seem ...more
Overall, I thought Treasure Hunt was a good read. I enjoyed the characters, I was interested in learning more about them, and I would like to read more novels featuring them. I thought the plot and the main whodunit were interesting &, especially towards the end of the book, I kept saying "I'll just read one more chapter" even though I didn't have any extra time. If there were 1/2 star ratings, I would have given 3.5 stars, but I didn't love the book enough to give 4 stars. I did, howe...more
A good, not great books. Generally, I love Lescroart's Dismas Hardy books and am pretty so-so when the Hunt character is the focus. It is better than a couple of the earlier Hunt books, but still needs to find some better action and focus and character development. An okay read that I'll probably pass on to my Dad.
This started out slowly for me but gradually built my interest as I realized that the central character was Wyatt Hunt and not Mickey Dade. If I had read the immediate the last of the Author's work, the leading chapters would have made better sense. A great read, when completed.
Excruciating audiobook narration. All women's voices were breathy and dumb. Female characters that should have held the audiences ESTEEM came across as whiny, questioning, airheads. Narrator's NORMAL talking voice throughout would have been preferable.
A murder mystery set in San Francisco examining political corruption and theft in the big money world of publicly funded charities. The Hunt detective agency becomes involved to solve the murder of the Chief Executive of a major charity. The irony is that the agency comes up with an idea to create a reward tip hotline funded by donations from the public charities. Payment for their services acting as intermediaries for the police saves the financially troubled detective agency. One of the Hunt C...more
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John Lescroart (born January 14, 1948) is an American author best known for two series of legal and crime thriller novels featuring the characters Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky.
Lescroart was born in Houston, Texas, and graduated from Junípero Serra High School, San Mateo, California (Class of 1966). He then went on to earn a B.A. in English with Honors at UC Berkeley in 1970. In additio...more
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Lescroart was born in Houston, Texas, and graduated from Junípero Serra High School, San Mateo, California (Class of 1966). He then went on to earn a B.A. in English with Honors at UC Berkeley in 1970. In additio...more
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