Poison Volume 17

A Novel

De: John Lescroart

Narrado por: Jacques Roy

From the bestselling author whose prose “matches the best of John Grisham and Scott Turow” (Providence Journal) comes a gripping thriller featuring attorney Dismas Hardy as he investigates the murder of a wealthy man whose heirs are all potential suspects.

Finally recovered from two gunshot wounds, Dismas Hardy is looking forward to easing into retirement and reconnecting with his family. But he is pulled back into the courtroom when Grant Wagner, the steely owner of a successful family business, is murdered. The prime suspect is Wagner’s bookkeeper Abby Jarvis, a former client of Hardy’s, who had been receiving large sums of cash under-the-table from the company—but she insists that she’s innocent.

Preparing for trial, Dismas investigates the Wagner clan and discovers dark, twisted secrets, jealous siblings, gold-digging girlfriends, betrayals, and blackmail. The closer he gets to the Wagners, the clearer it becomes that Dismas has a target painted on his back. With razor-sharp dialogue and whip-smart plotting, Poison once again demonstrates that “Lescroart is a master craftsman” (Associated Press).

Performance helps move slow plot

Author made the characters sound kind of stupid: portrayed smart lawyers and police nevertheless rush in without evidence ? Lots of useless passages, and words and rethinking abs restating drags the book along. Smart
basic plot, but could have cut at least a quarter of the blah blah blah repetition

The feelings of the main character.

The characters were well developed and the narrator was really good with her impressions of different characters.

Poison

Good story, except for the ending. Well written and ok story, but it became obvious who did it too early. This is the first novel, that I have read by Lescroart, I like the Dismiss Hardy character so I would like to try another.

Excellent Story

Another great Dismiss Hardy story! Kept me guessing and I hope Hardy keeps on solving cases.

Classic Dismas Hardy

Lescroart delivers again! I have read (or listened to) every Dismas Hardy look by Lescroart. It has been a privilege & honor to follow him with all his quirks of character & wry sensibilities for his entire adult life. Is this the end? Hardy solves one final case. All the favorite characters _ now older too are featured, Franny, Abe Glitzkey. Wes Farrell, “ the (fully grown “Beck”, Facebook-employed Vincent. Such a satisfying read. While David Colache will remain my favorite narrator of the Hardy series, this new reader is also superb. Great plot, great writing, great performance. Please don’t let this be the end.

The Cast Iron Pan

Had to wait till the last 5 minutes for the appearance of my favorite character: The pan. Only quibble is cooking eggs in said pan. All around enjoyable listen.

Good story - poor narration

Enjoyed the story but the narration, not so much. Narrator sounded bored with the story.

interesting side plot

love these stories, always a few twists & turns. a quick read so worth doing.

How smart Desman is.

The twists and turns of the plot and the intertwining of relationships kept you guessing. Another great story in this series.

Pretty good overall, but a few bones to pick

I like the Dismas Hardy series because I was raised in San Francisco and I can put myself in the scenes. It galls me when the performer mispronounces a street or location name (in this case, CLEment instead of CleMENT). Someone should be doing the equivalent of copy editing to the performance.
This wasn’t one of the author’s best, but it was good enough and I enjoyed it. Some twists and turns but not an excessive amount. I’d rate many in this series 5 stars, but am very comfortable giving this one 4.