Other People's Skeletons - Softcover

Smith, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804110867 ISBN 13: 9780804110860

Publisher: Fawcett, 1993

Synopsis

"Nobody gets inside her characters like Julie Smith."
Linda Barnes
When Rebecca Schwartz learns that her best friend and legal partner Chris Nicholson is accused of murder and won't give an alibi, Rebecca gets curious. To her amazement, Rebecca finds that her partner has a secret life--and so did the victim, dashing critic Jason McKendrick. For that matter, so does everyone else in the case, causing Rebecca to wonder what planet she's stumbled onto. One thing she knows with certainty: She has to shake some skeletons from the closets--and fast--or Chris is going to prison....

About this title

About the Author:

Former reporter Julie Smith lives mainly in New Orleans. She is an Edgar Award-winning author for her crime novels. She is also the author of the Talba Wallis and Skip Langdon mystery series. Robert Hale published her previous novel entitled Dead In the Water, which also features Rebecca Schwartz.

From Publishers Weekly:

San Francisco lawyer Rebecca Schwartz again turns to sleuthing when her partner, Chris Nicholson, becomes a prime suspect in the hit-and-run death of Chronicle arts critic Jason McKendrick . Chris says she didn't even know the victim, but an eyewitness places her car at the crime scene. Her alibi could get laughed out of court: she was with a group of fellow psychics, and everyone was in "deep trance." Rob Burns, a Chronicle reporter and Rebecca's ex-boyfriend, suggests that they cooperate to find the murderer. As they dig, Jason's life emerges like a puzzle of mismatched pieces: a glamorous job, a depressing hovel of a home and an array of women friends who offer strikingly different perspectives on him. Soon Chris's psychic chums, who ooze sincerity, use their otherworldly skills to nudge the investigation in the right direction. Although Jason's death emerges as one of a series of unhappy events in the lives of some people who have been cruelly mangled by fate, this fact--like a frightening medical problem that Rebecca develops--fails to lend substance to the tale, which doesn't compare with Smith's ( Jazz Funeral ) best.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Fawcett
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0804110867
• ISBN 13: 9780804110860
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 231