A Criminal Appeal.
Language: English
Published by Random House: Dell, New York, NY, 2000
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First Edition Thus [2000]; First Printing indicated. Fine in Wraps: binding square and secure; text clean. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 341pp. Cover Art by Alexi Garbarino. Mass Market Paperback. First Edition Thus [2000]; First Printing indicated.
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- Title
- A Criminal Appeal.
- Author
- D. R. Schanker.
- Publisher
- Random House: Dell, New York, NY
- Publication year
- 2000
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0440235812
- ISBN 13
- 9780440235811
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction: Mysteries
Big-boned, farm-bred, and fresh out of law school, Nora Lumsey has just landed a great job as an Indiana judge's law clerk. Then the Dexter Hinton case lands in her lap: An elderly white woman dies in a drive-by shooting. Two black kids are in the car. Dexter, ten years old and deaf, confesses. He gets fifty-five years.
Now the boy's distraught grandfather has written an appeal, and Nora's job is to draft the judge's denial. Turn the key and throw Dexter away.
That's her dilemma. The amateur appeal raises the wrong arguments. Nora knows the right ones. She also knows Dexter is innocent, convicted with lies and racism. Legally, she's forbidden to help. Morally, a big-boned woman is born to meddle...and perhaps risk everything for a young boy's life.
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From the Back Cover
--Mademoiselle
"First novelist Schanker wields a mighty pen...dramatic action and a powerful blend of race, religion, politics, and legal procedure."
--Library Journal
"Nora's harsh, uncompromising voice [is] something new and welcome in the genre."
--Kirkus Reviews
"The writing is superb...Nora is tough, loud, pushy and the perfect antidote for readers overdosed on the blood and guts of noir or the sugary niceness of today's cozies...Add D. R. Schanker to your list of favorite new authors."
--BookLine
"Brilliantly developed...authentic...Nora is one of the genre's best new characters."
--Harriet Klausner
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