Where Lawyers Fear To Tread

Author : Lia Matera
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 9780553268188
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Lawyers Fear to Tread written by Lia Matera and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1987 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A California law school takes an unprecedented turn when the chief newspaper editor is found dead. A senior student takes on the job thinking it will look good on her resume--unless she gets murdered first.

Author : Lia Matera
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504066642
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Lawyers Fear to Tread written by Lia Matera and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A San Francisco student’s about to discover law school can be murderous in this comic mystery series opener. Willa Jansson picked the wrong time to quit smoking. Exams are four weeks away. And if she’s not sitting in class, studying, or sipping innumerable cups of coffee, then she’s toiling away as the senior articles editor at the Malhousie Law Review. This job, and being in the top 10 percent of her class, means she’ll be able to land her dream job when she graduates. But at the moment, she has an even bigger problem to deal with . . . After Malhousie’s editor in chief, super-student Susan Green, is found bludgeoned to death, strangers—curious reporters, angry professors, and high-profile lawyers—keep snooping around the office. Then another editor fights to take Susan’s position, only to meet the same grisly end. Willa knows she must find out quickly who’s killing her fellow students and why—because, as the new editor in chief, she could be next . . . Praise for the Willa Jansson Mysteries “Willa Jansson is one of the most articulate and surely the wittiest of women sleuths at large in the genre.” —The New York Times Book Review “Readers will be shaken by Matera’s rapier-sharp dissection of personal relationships and radical ideologies. Matera again demonstrates that she is one of today’s best mystery writers.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Russell Means
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312147617
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where White Men Fear to Tread written by Russell Means and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Native American activist recounts his struggle for Indian self-determination, his periods in prison, and his spiritual awakening.

Author : Lia Matera
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476737576
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Star Witness written by Lia Matera and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth Willa Jansson mystery by Edgar-nominated author Lia Matera is “another winner in an outstanding series.” (Booklist). Just when attorney Willa Jansson is about to take a little time off from her job at a San Francisco multimedia firm, a friend calls in a favor. Suddenly Willa’s off to Santa Cruz to solve what she hopes will be a simple case of vehicular manslaughter and felony hit-and-run. But Willa is about to discover that nothing about this case—or the town where it occurred—is quite as it seems. Alan Miller’s sports car went over an embankment and onto the coastal highway below, landing atop another car and killing its driver. But there are no tire tracks, no witnesses, and Miller’s injuries aren’t consistent with a car crash. Unable to recall where he was just after the accident, Miller's memory is jogged under hypnosis—a recollection so far-fetched that Willa knows it will never stand up in court. All of a sudden, seemingly idyllic Santa Cruz is rife with dangerous secrets, and Willa must outrun helicopters, snipers, reporters, and her own interfering mother, all while trying to maintain her credibility and her career by making the jury buy her client’s out-of-this-world alibi—provided she can keep the witnesses alive long enough to testify.

Author : Lia Matera
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 9780553272680
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smart Money written by Lia Matera and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1988 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trial Lawyer Laura DiPalma moves to Eureka, California, intending to blackmail her ex-husband for murdering the man she loved. This is fast-paced, contemporary and very funny territory from a young writer whose first book, Where Lawyers Fear to Tread, was a critical hit!

Author : Larry Landrum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313003270
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Mystery and Detective Novels written by Larry Landrum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-05-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature. As such, they provide a wealth of information about popular art and culture. When the genre develops within various cultures, it adopts, and proceeds to dominate, native expressions and imagery. American mystery and detective novels appeared in the late nineteenth century. This reference provides a selective guide to the important criticism of American mystery and detective novels and presents general features of the genre and its historical development over the past two centuries. Critical approaches covered in the volume include story as game, images, myth criticism, formalism and structuralism, psychonalysis, Marxism and more. Comparisons with related genres, such as gothic, suspense, gangster, and postmodern novels, illustrate similarities and differences important to the understanding of the unique components of mystery and detective fiction. The guide is divided into five major sections: a brief history, related genres, criticism, authors, and reference. This organization accounts for the literary history and types of novels stemming from the mystery and detective genre. A chronology provides a helpful overview of the development and transformation of the genre.

Author : Lia Matera
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504066693
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Star Witness written by Lia Matera and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plucky lawyer’s out of her element when she investigates a suspicious death that’s out of this world in this mystery by the author of Last Chants. Overworked San Francisco attorney Willa Jansson’s ready to go on her three-week vacation and relax on the beach in Mexico. But before she can leave the office, she gets a phone call from a friend whom she owes a favor . . . Willa heads to Santa Cruz to take on what at first sounds like a vehicular manslaughter and felony hit-and-run case. Alan Miller’s Fiat fell on top of Francis Addenaur’s Buick in a field of Brussels sprouts. The problem is the Fiat left no tracks in the field and Miller wasn’t in his car. He says he was abducted by aliens As Willa begins examining crop circles and subpoenaing UFO experts, she realizes this case could ruin her career. But with an angry widow packing heat and mysterious black helicopters circling the sky, discovering the truth feels like a matter of life or death . . . “Matera’s latest mystery is a hoot. It will drive the Pentagon non-UFO believers crazy and probably end up being the inspiration for an X-Files episode. . . . This fast-moving tale is peppered with eccentric characters, snappy dialogue and a creative plot.” —San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle “Matera has proved more than once that she is the master when it comes to dabbling in Northern California flakiness for her mystery plots. This time she focuses on alien abduction. . . . Matera cleverly walks the line here between milking the material for humor and taking it all too seriously. . . . Mystery fans can’t fail to be entertained.” —San Jose Mercury News

Author : Terry White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313052573
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice Denoted written by Terry White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White provides the most comprehensive scholarly compilation of fictional work of legal suspense in existence. Primarily a bibliography of novels, it also annotates plays, scripts for film and television, novelizations, and short-story collections about lawyers and the law. The idea behind the principal of selection is to disdain labels that reduce the variety of the legal thriller to a subgenre of mystery fiction. Novels that range from suspense thrillers through science fiction to the philosophical novel are included if justice is thematically important. It is therefore an eclectic reference source beyond a compilation of books about lawyers as protagonists. Its biographical and scholarly information about authors, major and minor, and their novels or works is traditionally encyclopedic and objective regardless of whether the work has been genre-defined, or worse—deified as a classic or denigrated as a bestseller. Many novels included are long out of print, but historically interesting for their contribution to the lineage of the courtroom drama, showing that the history of the legal thriller is one of the major branches of modern literature since the Age of Reason. The criterion of justice denoted moves beyond the fact of lawyers and courtrooms to select seminal novels like Robert Travers' Anatomy of a Murder as well as the romantic potboiler. Among the more than 2,000 works are the Perry Mason novels of Erle Stanley Gardner, John Mortimer's Rumpole series, along with a staple of fiction by major authors of the genre like John Lescroart, Lisa Scottoline, Margaret Maron, Scott Turow, and John Grisham. There are also individual works by Shakespeare, Goethe, Kafka, Camus, and Twain delineating humanity's obsession with the law as its shining prop of civilization and, alternative, béte-noire of the common individual caught up in its maw. The appendices include comments by lawyer-novelist Michael A. Kahn, a historical introduction to the legal thriller, craft notes by writers and prominent trial lawyers responding to author and lawyer questionnaires, bibliography of critical sources and articles, series characters, and the legal terminology found in courtroom dramas and novels. An essential reference tool for scholars, researchers as well as the occasional reader of legal thrillers.

Author : Mary Beth Pringle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313008248
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Grisham written by Mary Beth Pringle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-05-28 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his seven legal thrillers, all published since 1989, John Grisham has won a huge following of readers and set a standard few contributors to the genre can match. Because of the success of his novels, the legal thriller is the most popular genre in American fiction today. In this study, Pringle explains how Grisham's legal thriller evolved from the thriller tradition and borrowed from the heroic romance novel, gothic novel, crime novel, and detective fiction. She shows how his novels examine contemporary social and legal problems that do not have simple solutions—ecology, ethnic relations, capital punishment, corporate greed, and health insurance—and how he depicts both the legal system and lawyers in their best and worst lights. Following a biographical chapter that focuses on Grisham's childhood in Arkansas, education, political career, and development as a writer, Pringle examines the legal thriller, its antecedents, and Grisham's contribution to the genre. An individual chapter is devoted to analysis of each of his novels. Each chapter synopsizes the novel, discusses its reception by critics, and features sections on plot development, character development, social/historical context and issues, and an alternative critical perspective from which to approach the novel, such as psychoanalytic theory or feminist criticism. The work includes a complete bibliography of Grisham's work, critical sources, and list of reviews of all of his novels. Because of Grisham's popularity with adults and young adults and the contemporary issues he raises, this study is valuable to students, book discussion group participants, and other interested readers, and is an essential purchase for school and public libraries.

Author : Frederic L. Kirgis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047409337
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Society of International Law's First Century, 1906-2006 written by Frederic L. Kirgis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-03-14 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the historic launch of the organization by such luminaries as Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes, to the recent era when international law is more and more in the public realm, Kirgis’s book traces the evolution of the organization and its relationship to events in the United States and around the world. As he says in the preface: '...In the end, the reader will have to make his/her own judgment about how well the Society has run the course it set out for itself in 1906. I hope this book will provide a basis for that judgment. And of course no judgment at this stage can be final. The American Society of International Law will carry on into its second century with new and continuing programs that take into account what it has done in its first one hundred years. It will continue to do its best to demonstrate not only what international law is or should be, but also that, in the words of former ASIL President Louis Henkin, international law matters.'