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A review by martyfried
Poison by John Lescroart
3.0
I'm disappointed in this book for a few reasons. One is personal; my love for this series is in a large part due to the interactions between Hardy and Abe Glitsky, and there wasn't much of that in this book.
But there were a couple of technical things that bothered me. These might be considered spoilers, somewhat, so I'll put spoiler tags around the rest of the review just in case. I don't know that it's really a major spoiler, but read at your own risk.
The first problem I had was when Hardy's wife, Frannie, came down hard on him because she thought he was putting their son, Vincent's life at risk due to his involvement in the murder case Hardy was handling. But in my opinion, this wasn't happening at all. Vincent got involved because a friend of his was murdered. Nobody suspected it was related to Hardy's case. In fact, Hardy's family became aware of the involvement only because they later suspected it was related, so if Hardy had not been handling the murder case, they may never had even known of the danger. Nevertheless, it would have happened whether Hardy was handling the case or not.
Another problem was when they had a suspect, but no proof, so his investigator, Wyatt Hunt, was to follow the suspect hoping he would walk into a trap, which involved trying to kill someone using the same gun as he used in two other shootings. The gun was the only link, and was very important. Yet Hunt was following him alone, and in fact almost lost him once. It seems like for something as important as this, there should have been more than just one person following him.
But there were a couple of technical things that bothered me. These might be considered spoilers, somewhat, so I'll put spoiler tags around the rest of the review just in case. I don't know that it's really a major spoiler, but read at your own risk.
Spoiler
The first problem I had was when Hardy's wife, Frannie, came down hard on him because she thought he was putting their son, Vincent's life at risk due to his involvement in the murder case Hardy was handling. But in my opinion, this wasn't happening at all. Vincent got involved because a friend of his was murdered. Nobody suspected it was related to Hardy's case. In fact, Hardy's family became aware of the involvement only because they later suspected it was related, so if Hardy had not been handling the murder case, they may never had even known of the danger. Nevertheless, it would have happened whether Hardy was handling the case or not.
Another problem was when they had a suspect, but no proof, so his investigator, Wyatt Hunt, was to follow the suspect hoping he would walk into a trap, which involved trying to kill someone using the same gun as he used in two other shootings. The gun was the only link, and was very important. Yet Hunt was following him alone, and in fact almost lost him once. It seems like for something as important as this, there should have been more than just one person following him.