Open Season on Lawyers: A Novel of Suspense

Taffy Cannon. Daniel & Daniel Publishers, $13.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-1-880284-51-3

""Somebody was killing the sleazy lawyers of Los Angeles. In the beginning, hardly anyone even noticed,"" begins Taffy Cannon's (Guns and Roses) sharply clever Open Season on Lawyers. LAPD homicide detective Joanna Davis pursues a murderer whose vengeance takes strange parallels to the lawyers' perceived crimes (a lawyer who defended a caterer against charges of food poisoning later dies of it, for example); readers just might be torn between wanting her to catch him and wanting him to get away.

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