A review by johnnyb1954
Dead Irish by John Lescroart

3.0

Interesting to read first book of a series (from 1989) and see how Dismas Hardy gets into (back into) crime detection. The story is pretty solid and the writing good - though some of the story written from the black characters' perspectives is a little awkward. And that really is the main problem with this book. The perspective keeps changing and we see things from various characters viewpoints. It's not centered on Hardy and there are a lot of tangents and extra content. In the end a couple of subplots are just left loose and unresolved. With all time invested in developing the various characters throughout the book, it wouldn't have been a problem to just add a couple pages of epilog to wrap these up.