Welcome
Résumé
Preview - The Children
Preview - Face Value
Preview - A Hard Bargain
Preview - Prior Convictions
Preview - The Good Fight
Preview - Hidden Agenda
Preview - A Radical Departure
Preview - The Smart Money
Preview - Where Lawyers Fear
Short Story - Dead Drunk
Books and Stories
Reviews
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Publications

 

 

Novels

 

Havana Twist

Simon & Schuster; Pocket Star

 

Star Witness

Simon & Schuster; Pocket Star

 

Last Chants

Simon & Schuster; Pocket Books

 

Designer Crimes

Simon & Schuster; Pocket Books

 

Face Value

Simon & Schuster; Pocket Books

 

Prior Convictions

Bantam Books; Ballantine

            Edgar Allan Poe Award and Anthony Award Nominee

 

A Hard Bargain

Simon & Schuster; Ballantine

 

The Good Fight

Simon & Schuster; Ballantine

       Anthony Award and Macavity Award Nominee

 

Hidden Agenda

Bantam Books; Ballantine

 

The Smart Money

Bantam Books; Ballantine

 

A Radical Departure

Bantam Books; Ballantine

      Edgar Allan Poe Award and Anthony Award Nominee

 

Where Lawyers Fear To Tread

Bantam Books; Ballantine; Five Star Press

             Anthony Award and Macavity Award Nominee

 

 

Anthologies

 

 

Counsel For The Defense And Other Stories

Nine original short stories, reprinted; Five Star Press

 

Irreconcilable Differences

Lia Matera, editor; original stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Amanda Cross, Jeffery Deaver, Edna Buchanan, and 16 other contemporary writers;

      HarperCollins; Avon Books

 

 

Short Stories

 

"The Children"

     Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine,  September/October 2011 issue

 

"Dream Lawyer"

Diagnosis: Dead, ed. Jonathan Kellerman, Pocket Books

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge

 

"If It Can't Be True"

Irreconcilable Differences, ed. Lia Matera, HarperCollins;Avon Books

 

"Dead Drunk"

      Winner of the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award

         Guilty As Charged, ed. Scott Turow, Pocket Books

         The Year's Twenty-five Finest Crime and Mystery Stories,

           ed. Joan Hess, Carroll & Graf

A Century of Noir, ed. Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins, Penguin Putnam

 

"Performance Crime"

Women on the Case, ed. Sarah Paretsky, Doubleday; Dell

 

"The River Mouth"

The Mysterious West, ed. Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins; Harper Paperbacks

A Moment on the Edge, ed. Elizabeth George, HarperCollins

 

"Do Not Resuscitate"

Crimes of the Heart, ed. Carolyn G. Hart, Berkley Books; Berkley Books

 

"Easy Go"

      Deadly Allies, ed. Robert J. Randisi and Marilyn Wallace,

           Doubleday; Bantam Books

 

"Destroying Angel"

Sisters in Crime 2, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley Books

 

"Counsel For the Defense"

      Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley Books

 

 

 

Work and Education:

 

 

       Stanford University Law School

                                   Teaching Fellow

                                             Courses taught:

                                             Legal Writing and Research

                                             Moot Court

 

          JurisDoctor Degree

Hastings College of the Law

San Francisco, California

 

Editor-in-Chief

Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly

 

Admitted to Practice: California Bar

 

         Bachelor of Arts

University of California

Santa Cruz, California

 




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|Welcome| |Résumé| |Preview - The Children| |Preview - Face Value| |Preview - A Hard Bargain| |Preview - Prior Convictions| |Preview - The Good Fight| |Preview - Hidden Agenda| |Preview - A Radical Departure| |Preview - The Smart Money| |Preview - Where Lawyers Fear| |Short Story - Dead Drunk| |Books and Stories| |Reviews|