false <![CDATA[A Plague of Secrets]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255830129m/5802612.jpg 5802612 9 The first victim is Dylan Vogler, a charming ex-convict who manages the Bay Beans West coffee shop in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. When his body is found, inspectors discover that his knapsack is filled with high-grade marijuana. It soon becomes clear that San Francisco’s A-list flocked to Bay Beans West not only for their caffeine fix.<br><br>But how much did Maya Townshend — the beautiful socialite niece of the city’s mayor, and the absentee owner of the shop — know about what was going on inside her business? And how intimate had she really been with Dylan, her old college friend?<br><br>As another of Maya’s acquaintances falls victim to murder, and as the names of the dead men’s celebrity, political, and even law-enforcement customers come to light, tabloid-fueled controversy takes the investigation into the realms of conspiracy and cover-up. Prosecutors close in on Maya, who has a deep secret of her own—a secret she needs to protect at all costs during her very public trial, where not only her future but the entire political landscape of San Francisco hangs in the balance, hostage to an explosive secret that Dismas Hardy is privilegebound to protect. 5974591 book 30 6 2009 A Plague of Secrets total:131|5:25|4:65|3:36|2:4|1:1| 131 502 206 51 3 0 false false Thu Jul 02 11:26:27 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 11:30:51 -0700 2009 A Plague of Secrets opens with a tragic accident. San Francisco police Lieutenant Abe Glitsky's three year old son is hit by a car and sustains a serious head inujury. Abe's good friend, defense lawyer Dismas Hardy and his wife step in to help care for Abe and Treya's other child. The book is not...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 19:00:45 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 20:01:59 -0700 2009 John Grisham usually gets all the hype, but John Lescroart and Robert Tannenbaum are much better writers. A Plague of Secrets is Lescroart's twentieth book in his Dismas Hardy series; that's pretty impressive.

I like this series, set in San Francisco, part...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 21:36:42 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 22:53:19 -0700 2009
Diz is still Diz and ther...more...]]> 5 0 true false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 14:16:51 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 10:26:50 -0700 2009 3 Reviewed by Russell Ilg

John Lescroart has taking the art of legal thrillers to new highest. John
characters are by far the best in the industry I have the feeling that I am
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Hunt is a favorite beca...

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