Poison - John Lescroart

John Lescroart

Category: Crime

Tags: Crime, Mystery, Adults

From the master of the legal thriller (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart comes a dramatic family drama in which attorney Dismas Hardy is called on to defend a former client against the accusation of murder., Dismas Hardy is looking forward to cutting back his work hours and easing into retirement after recovering from two gunshot wounds. He is determined to spend more time with his family and even reconnect with his distant son, Vincent. But Dismas just cant stay away from the courtroom for long and soon he is pulled into an intense family drama with fatal consequences., Grant Carver, the vigorous patriarch of the Carver family and its four-generations owned family business, has been murdered. His bookkeeper Abby Jarvis, whom Hardy had defended on a DUI charge eleven years prior, is the prime suspect after police discover shes been embezzling funds from the companybut she insists she did not kill her boss., As he prepares to defend her, Dismas investigates the Carver clan and discovers