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Four mysteries with a strong sense of place reviewed by Susan Olasky | John Lescroart

A Plague of Secrets | John Lescroart

John Lescroart's San Francisco-based police/courtroom procedural's are great entertainment, and he makes the city—its politics, weather, and food—serve his stories. His main characters, defense attorney Dismas Hardy and homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky, are close friends and frequent opponents, as they both pursue justice from their different vantage points. In this chapter of the long-running series, Hardy defends from a murder charge the wife of a prominent developer who owns a coffee shop from which marijuana is sold. Meanwhile, because Glitsky is distracted by a life-threatening injury suffered by his son, he fails to oversee properly the case put together by his young subordinates.

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