A Plague of Secrets by John Lescroart.Maya Townsend is a wealthy (very wealthy) owner of a coffee shop.Why she needs to be an owner of the Bay Beans coffee Shop did not become apparent.Maya becomes Hardy's client after a murder takes place close to the store. It does becomes apparent that Maya tells half truths to any of Hardy's questions, if that.Then another murder occurs and this victim is also an acquaintance of Maya's. Does Maya have something going on that she's been hiding? Is the Bay Beans coffee Shop selling something else besides coffee?Playing throughout this story is Abe Glitsky's personality or rather personality change. Glitsky has serious problems in his family life that seem to interfere with his work and relationships. the serious problem is his son's health.I found while reading that this story either had me with every page/word or I lost interest completely. Needlessly long. Police crime procedurals/mysteries are my guilty pleasure. I've been looking for a new series and I think I've found it...even though I started with book 13! Love that this book was set in San Francisco so it felt like "home turf." I also enjoyed the story. I listened to this on CD during my commute the last two weeks. The only thing I didn't love was related to the fact that it was an audio recording. The reader made all the women sound so pouty, petulant and whiny when he read their lines, though I don't think they were written that way. I'll have to read the another one in this series to see if the women are truly portrayed in such a way.
pure detective/lawyer/cop books - always well written and in and around the San Francisco Bay Area
—ally2425
I only made it about 150 pages in, the story just never seemed to find a good pace.
—Nicole455
Enjoyed this book, will consider reading others from Lescroart
—sarah16123
Found the book boring.
—monigurll13
