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Summary
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This collection of nine stories personally selected by Lia Matera features "Dead Drunk," the story that won her the Shamus Award, and "Dream Lawyer," with Matera's popular hippie-turned-San Francisco lawyer Willa Janssen. In the title story, a defense lawyer takes on her ex-husband as a client when he is charged with killing his second wife.
A mushroom expert unwittingly serves poisonous wild mushrooms in "Destroying Angel," and a new wife faces a dilemma when her husband has a stroke in "Do Not Resuscitate." To free his sister from a psychiatric hospital, her brother threatens to blow up a Grange Hall full of his neighbors in "If It Can't Be True." These stories and the rest will entrance you, entertain you, and keep you awake at night.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Counsel for the Defense
- Destroying Angel
- Easy Go
- Do Not Resuscitate
- The River Mouth
- Performance Crime
- Dead Drunk
- If It Can’t Be True
- Dream Lawyer [Willa Jansson; Laura di Palma]
Original title: Counsel for the Defense and Other Stories
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Crime and Mystery→ Suspense
Fiction→ Crime and Mystery→ Legal Thriller
Fiction→ Crime and Mystery→ Detective Story and Detectives→ General
The following works are contained within this one:
Dead Drunk (1996) [Short Story]
Author: Lia Matera
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