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A review by caitlinxmartin
Damage by John Lescroart
5.0
Last review of a book I read during the week after my surgery - reading comfort food (I'm sure you're sick of hearing that phrase).
John Lescroart writes incredibly dependable crime fiction. He's developed a range of characters that he writes regularly about, but I'll admit that the team of Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitzky is my favorite of them.
I love books where authors pay attention to their secondary characters in terms of development within all the books, but I especially love it when they get to come out to play. In this book Abe Glitzky is at the center of a case that shows off some of San Francisco's ugliness. It's a wealthy city and where there is lots of wealth and privilege there is usually an equal amount of entitlement - this is true everywhere and it's true in San Francisco, too.
In this case it's what seems like an almost futile chase after the son of a prominent family whose habit of raping and killing immigrant women who work for his family has put him in jail once. Out on appeal, and witnesses and other people related to his earlier conviction start dying in pretty hideous ways. It's up to Abe and to Wes Farrell, newly elected District Attorney (and former member of the defense bar), to stop the chaos.
As always the sense of place is great - Mr. Lescroart does know his city. The plot is just complicated enough and will keep you reading long into the night.
Really great crime fiction - highly recommended.
John Lescroart writes incredibly dependable crime fiction. He's developed a range of characters that he writes regularly about, but I'll admit that the team of Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitzky is my favorite of them.
I love books where authors pay attention to their secondary characters in terms of development within all the books, but I especially love it when they get to come out to play. In this book Abe Glitzky is at the center of a case that shows off some of San Francisco's ugliness. It's a wealthy city and where there is lots of wealth and privilege there is usually an equal amount of entitlement - this is true everywhere and it's true in San Francisco, too.
In this case it's what seems like an almost futile chase after the son of a prominent family whose habit of raping and killing immigrant women who work for his family has put him in jail once. Out on appeal, and witnesses and other people related to his earlier conviction start dying in pretty hideous ways. It's up to Abe and to Wes Farrell, newly elected District Attorney (and former member of the defense bar), to stop the chaos.
As always the sense of place is great - Mr. Lescroart does know his city. The plot is just complicated enough and will keep you reading long into the night.
Really great crime fiction - highly recommended.