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Willa Jansson is horrified about what she's getting herself into when psychiatrist Fred Hershey asks her to defend his patient against charges of vehicular manslaughter. Her new client claims he was kidnapped by aliens and has no memory of the fatal hit-and-run car crash. As Willa probes a series of inexplicable abductions and deaths in Santa Cruz, she's sure of only one thing: the nearer she gets to the truth, the more determined someone seems to be to stop her dead in her tracks. Simultaneous hardcover release from Simon & Schuster. May publication date. 2 cassettes.
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Remember the "Twinkie Defense," where a lawyer tried to get his client off on a murder charge on the basis of too much sugar in his diet? Fictional (but totally believable) San Francisco attorney Willa Jansson goes one step beyond in this addition to Lia Matera's lively series: Willa uses the "UFO Defense," based on her client's memories (revealed under hypnosis) of being in an alien spaceship when his sports car went off the road and killed another driver. Jansson finds four squabbling UFO experts to support this defense strategy, and not the least of Matera's many high points in a book full of them is her ability to convince us that it might just have happened. Previous Jansson cases in paperback include Last Chants, Hidden Agenda, Prior Convictions, and Radical Departure.
About the Author:
Lia Matera is a graduate of Hastings College of the Law, where she was editor in chief of the Constitutional Law Quarterly. She was also a Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School before becoming a full-time writer of legal mysteries. Prior Convictions and A Radical Departure were nominated for Edgar Allan Poe awards. The Good Fight and Where Lawyers Fear to Tread were nominated for Anthony and Macavity Awards. She has written nine novels, including the critically acclaimed Face Value. Matera lives in Santa Cruz, California.
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- PublisherSunset Productions
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1564312135
- ISBN 13 9781564312136
- BindingAudio Cassette
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