A Radical Departure was nominated for the mystery genre's two top prizes, the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Anthony Award.
Willa Jansson has taken the job of her left-wing dreams. She is working for the renowned firm of an old family friend, famous activist Julian Warneke. Julian once defended Willa after a protest march got her arrested and hauled off to jail. Unfortunately, Julian's grandstanding put Willa behind bars for two traumatic months. Now that she works for him, he's pushing her into a similar show trial... and never mind the client's best interests or Willa's best ...
A Radical Departure was nominated for the mystery genre's two top prizes, the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Anthony Award.
Willa Jansson has taken the job of her left-wing dreams. She is working for the renowned firm of an old family friend, famous activist Julian Warneke. Julian once defended Willa after a protest march got her arrested and hauled off to jail. Unfortunately, Julian's grandstanding put Willa behind bars for two traumatic months. Now that she works for him, he's pushing her into a similar show trial... and never mind the client's best interests or Willa's best judgment.
When Julian is murdered, a Who's Who of radicals flock to San Francisco to pay respects to the grand old man of progressive politics. Willa discovers that her militant mother is entangled in conspiracies both old and new, and her father is lying about where he's been. And only one person offering to help: Willa's despised ex is back in town and on the case as a private eye.
Find out why Robert B. Parker described A Radical Departure as, "Funny, cleared-eyed and strong," and the San Jose Mercury News said it has "almost everything a good mystery needs, a complex plot, social commentary, loads of atmosphere and a cast of unusual characters."
A Radical Departure is funny, clear-eyed and strong.
San Jose Mercury News
A Radical Departure has almost everything a good mystery needs... a complex plot, social commentary, loads of atmosphere and a cast of unusual characters... The reader wants to hang out with Jansson and see more of her clear-eyed view of the world.
Lia Matera is the author of twelve novels, ten short stories, and a novella. She is a graduate of Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, where she was editor-in-chief of the Constitutional Law Quarterly. She is a member of the California Bar and was a Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School before becoming a full-time writer.
Two novels in the Willa Jansson series were nominated for the mystery genre's top prize, the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Three were nominated for the Anthony Award, and two were nominated for the Macavity Award. She has also published two anthologies. Her story, "Dead Drunk," originally printed in Scott Turow's, Guilty As Charged, won the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for Best Short Story of 1996
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A Radical Departure was nominated for the mystery genre's two top prizes, the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Anthony Award.Willa Jansson has taken the job of her left-wing dreams. She is working for the renowned firm of an old family friend, famous activist Julian Warneke. Julian once defended Willa after a protest march got her arrested and hauled off to jail. Unfortunately, Julian's grandstanding put Willa behind bars for two traumatic months. Now that she works for him, he's pushing her into a similar show trial... and never mind the client's best interests or Willa's best ...