Inherit the Shoes

by E. J. Copperman

Overview

Lawyer Sandy Moss gets mixed up in a celebrity murder case in LA, in the first in a brand-new cosy legal mystery series.

New Jersey prosecutor Sandy Moss is tired of petty criminals, and a new job at a glitzy Los Angeles law firm seems the perfect career move. Putting 3,000 miles between her and her ex-boyfriend is just an added bonus.

But on Sandy's first morning as a family attorney, she inadvertently kills her new career stone dead when she offends her boss during a meeting with the firm's top celebrity client, charismatic TV star Patrick McNabb. But that's not as dead as Patrick's soon-to-be ex-wife, Patsy, is that evening, when she's discovered shot by an arrow, her husband standing over her.

Did Patrick really kill his wife in a dispute over a pair of shoes? All signs point to yes. But Patrick is determined to clear his name, using all the legal skills he's learned from playing a lawyer on TV, and to Sandy's deep dismay, she's the only person he'll allow to help . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780727890849
Publisher:	Severn House
Publication date:	01/05/2021
Series:	A Jersey Girl Legal Mystery , #1
Edition description:	Main
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.98(h) x (d)

About the Author

E.J. Copperman is the nom de plume for Jeff Cohen, a New Jersey native and writer of intentionally funny murder mysteries. As E.J., he writes the Haunted Guesthouse and Agent to the Paws series, as well as the brand-new Jersey Girl Legal mysteries; as Jeff, he writes the Double Feature and Aaron Tucker series; and he collaborates with himself on the Samuel Hoenig Asperger's mysteries.

Editorial Reviews

11/23/2020

Former New Jersey prosecutor Sandy Moss, the narrator of this amiable if flawed series launch from Copperman (the Asperger’s mysteries), has relocated to L.A. to take a job with a family law firm, where she gets off to a rocky start. At a divorce negotiation between the firm’s client, TV star Pat McNabb, and McNabb’s soon-to-be ex-wife, Patsy, Sandy speaks out of turn and compromises the client’s position. McNabb, however, is taken with Sandy, and insists she remain on the case. After McNabb is arrested for fatally shooting Patsy with an arrow, she becomes his defense attorney. The evidence against McNabb includes his being found at the scene with blood on his hands, which he claims was the result of his attempt to remove the arrow. While the actor is out on bail, Sandy and McNabb are shot at, his car is blown up, and someone nails a Barbie doll decorated with fake blood to Sandy’s door, along with a message, “Die, Bitch!” The tongue-in-cheek approach jars with the otherwise realistic plot. Copperman has done better. Agent: Josh Getzler, HG Agency. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

Sandy is a Jersey girl, a competent, tenacious, yet vulnerable heroine in a cast of vividly described characters and in a story with multiple plot twists that's enlivened with humor and set against the glittering backdrop of Hollywood - Booklist

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