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Author	Lescroart, John T author.
Title	Poison : a novel / John Lescroart.
Edition	First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Published	Atria Books, 20180213.,
	New York Atria Books, 2018.
	©2018
Description	293 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Dismas Hardy 17
General Note	A Dismas Hardy novel.
Summary	"Dismas Hardy is looking forward to cutting back his work hours and easing into retirement after recovering from two gunshot wounds. He is determined to spend more time with his family and even reconnect with his distant son, Vincent. But Dismas just can't stay away from the courtroom for long and soon he is pulled into an intense family drama with fatal consequences. Grant Carver, the vigorous patriarch of the Carver family and its four-generations owned family business, has been murdered. His bookkeeper Abby Jarvis, whom Hardy had defended on a DUI charge eleven years prior, is the prime suspect after police discover she's been embezzling funds from the company--but she insists she did not kill her boss. As he prepares to defend her, Dismas investigates the Carver clan and discovers the dark, twisted secrets within the family. It seems that Abby was not the only one who stood to profit from the company's
Subjects	Embezzlement -- Fiction
	Hardy, Dismas (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
	Attorney and client -- Fiction
	Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
	San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
Genre	Legal fiction (Literature)
	Thrillers (Fiction)
	Legal fiction (Literature)

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