Poison by John Lescroart

I love John Lescroart's books. They have interesting plots and a good crew of characters. But for some reason Poison kind of dragged. It starts off with the death of the head of a family-run company. First it's thought to be due to a heart attack. Then, after one of the victim's kids has doubts, the coroner decides it was the result of an exotic poison. The company's bookkeeper, an old client of lawyer Dismas Hardy, gets arrested though she protests that she's innocent. Diz isn't sure whether or not he believes her but agrees to defend her. The cops are also dealing with the seemingly unrelated shotgun death of a young Asian man, who didn't have an enemy in the world.

Part of what bogged down the book was that the family business was populated with siblings whose names all started with G (The G Team), which made it hard to keep them all straight--and a lot of pages were devoted to their discussions on whether or not to sell the company, which truthfully was not as interesting to me as finding out who the killer(s) were.

If you're new to John Lescroart, try one of his earlier Dismas Hardy books.