DESIGNER CRIMES: A LAURA DI PALMA MYSTERY - Hardcover

Matera, Lia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684803127 ISBN 13: 9780684803128

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1995

Synopsis

Laura De Palma is back in two cases that have her running for her life as she investigates the shooting of an attorney who dies in her arms and a bullet that strikes the D.A. but is clearly intended for her. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Lia Matera was a Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School.

From Publishers Weekly:

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 been charged with murdering his missing and presumed-dead ex-lover. The pursuit of another issue, trying to stop an ex-employer's slander, puts Laura at the scene of a murder: a masked man shoots lawyer Jocelyn Kinsley during her meeting with Laura. Kinsley's last words, "designer crimes," baffle Laura until her former (and possibly future) lover, PI Sandy Arklett (who wonders if Laura was the shooter's real target), discovers that someone in the office was tailoring extralegal revenge when the law would not suffice. Before long, Brad jumps bail, claiming that someone is trying to kill and frame him, and he echoes Sandy's suspicions that Laura is at the center of things. Matera (Face Value) creates a dark world in which insinuation looms large and the crimes stack up in rapid succession, requiring significant suspension of disbelief. Laura, particularly angry and uncertain in this complex plot, finds only small relief in the resolution.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0684803127
• ISBN 13: 9780684803128
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240