Lia Matera, Author Fawcett Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-37107-2
Lawyer Laura Di Palma is forced out of her prestigious firm and linked to several suspicious deaths after her search for her ailing, missing lover causes her to neglect a client. ``The author's unexpected coda leaves a sobering aftertaste,...
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Lia Matera, Author Fawcett Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-37445-5
In this intricate tale of duplicity with overtones of '60s politics, a San Francisco woman fears she betrayed a member of the witness relocation program. Simon & Schuster will publish Matera's latest mystery, A Hard Bargain , in May also. (May)
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Lia Matera, Author Fawcett Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-38059-3
Matera's skillfully woven tale intertwines attorney Laura DiPalma's dissatisfactions and the problems of a woman whose death she investigates. (Apr.)
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Lia Matera, Author Simon & Schuster $22 (272p) ISBN 978-0-684-83470-2
Willa Jansson, Matera's plucky sleuthing lawyer (Star Witness, 1997), deserves a Daughter of the Year award for the latest adventure. This time, her mother, an unrepentant social activist, goes international, failing to return with her gray-haired...
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Lia Matera, Author Simon & Schuster $17.45 (219p) ISBN 978-0-671-68561-4
Matera's ( Where Lawyers Fear to Tread ) new mystery revolves around Laura Di Palma, once a political activist and now a rich lawyer with a prestigious San Francisco firm. Pricked by her conscience, however, Laura agrees to defend Dan Crosetti, a...
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Lia Matera, Author Simon & Schuster $17.45 (204p) ISBN 978-0-671-68560-7
Matera ( The Good Fight ) examines the limits of loyalty and friendship in this haunting tale. Lawyer Willa Jansson finishes a miserable, lonely year with an L.A. law firm and, to the delight of her hippie parents, moves back to San Francisco to...
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Lia Matera, Author Simon & Schuster $18.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74196-9
Attorney Laura DiPalma, last seen in The Good Fight , has dropped out of the San Francisco law scene and, now unemployed, is living in her northern California hometown with her cousin and lover, Hal. Her former partner, Sandy Arkelett, arrives to...
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Lia Matera, Author Simon & Schuster $20 (224p) ISBN 978-0-671-74197-6
Fresh from her hard-hitting rural adventure in the Edgar-nominated A Hard Bargain , lawyer Laura Di Palma has returned to San Francisco to establish a solo practice. Her first client may be fellow lawyer Margaret Lenin, whose spiritual guru, Michael
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Lia Matera, Author Simon & Schuster $20.5 (240p) ISBN 978-0-684-80312-8
In a brief prologue that works more as a spoiler, San Francisco lawyer Laura Di Palma is arrested for conspiracy to murder ambitious DA Connie Gold. The book proper soon clarifies that Gold is prosecuting Laura's sole client Brad Rommel, who has...
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Lia Matera, Author Simon & Schuster $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-81085-0
Matera's skills make an accomplished, compelling mystery of material that could have been a lightweight, New Age yarn. En route to a new job in downtown San Francisco, lawyer Willa Jansson, last seen in the Edgar-nominated Prior Convictions, is...
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Lia Matera, Author Simon & Schuster $22 (240p) ISBN 978-0-684-83469-6
In the wackiest of a lively series (Last Chants, 1996), plucky San Francisco lawyer Willa Jansson defends a man who says he was in a spaceship when his car fell on top of a Buick, killing the driver, Francis Addenauer. Alan Miller tells this story...
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