A Radical Departure.

LIA MATERA

Publication: Bantam, 1988, New York

First edition. Author's second book. Signed by the author. PBO. Edgar award nominee for best paerback mystery. Very good in pictorial wrappers. Working for a San Francisco law firm, Willa Jansson thought she'd seen everything. Then her boss dies from hemlock poisoning. Things go from awful to outrageous when Willa's mother, a former client of the deceased, is suspiciously named in his will to inherit his fantastic home in the hills. Poking into the recent past and the apolitical present, Willa fishes out an old boyfriend she'd rather forget, a cop she hates on principle, and a famous law firm that can barely make ends meet. It's a pretty good catch for a first-year associte ... considering someone is trying to kill her.

Inventory Number: 6284