DEAD IRISH: JOHN LESCROART

The first in Lescroart's Dismas Hardy series.  Dismas has been at a loss for a number of years, putting in time as a bartender despite having been a cop and a lawyer.  The suicide of Eddie Cochran, the son in law of Moses, the bar's owner, leads Dismas to investigate the suicide, whether it might something else like murder, which would allow Fanny, Eddie's wife, insurance money.  The trail leads towards Eddie's work, to a Boss involved in a drug deal gone wrong, to an owner of a Latino newspaper.  Both are dead ends eventually and Dismas must look to those close to Eddie's family.  With the counsel of the local Catholic priest Father Cavanaugh, Dismas figures out the killer.