Lia Matera
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
San Francisco lawyer Willa Jansson becomes involved with spies, smugglers, and a jailed poet as she searches Havana for her missing mother. The mother failed to return from a goodwill visit to Cuba, which she made with a group of women.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In San Francisco, lawyer Willa Jansson undertakes to defend a man who claims, not he but spacemen crashed his car into another, killing the driver. The man's explanation stops being a joke when a hitchhiker corroborates the presence of a UFO.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Résumé
Que serait Montréal sans la souveraineté de ses arbres ?
L'arbre est politique. Bertrand Laverdure sait parler aux arbres. Sans eux, les femmes et les hommes perdraient leur chemin et leur cœur. Une musique infinie, un vertige, un piano, ou une danse projette sa lumière sur la ville. Que serait Montréal sans ce peuple vertical qui enseigne la douceur, l'espoir et l'humilité.
Extrait du prologue
« Écrire aux arbres, c'est écrire...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A lawyer is drawn into a dangerous case after a love guru shakes up San Francisco in this mystery by the author of A Hard Bargain.
Leaving an expensive firm and toxic work environment behind her, attorney Laura Di Palma has opened her own practice. She's eager for business, and she's not about to turn away fellow lawyer Margaret Lenin.
Margaret had been struggling with a midlife crisis. Full of deep questions, she sought answers from a spiritual master,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Laura Di Palma investigates an unusual vigilante operation in San Francisco. Employees unable to obtain recourse through regular channels can seek redress from "designer crimes," the punishment tailored to fit the offending employer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Murder and a missing person disrupt a high-profile lawyer's climb up the ladder of success in this mystery by the author of The Smart Money.
Everything's falling into place for attorney Laura Di Palma. She's about to become a partner at her prominent firm, she has a great apartment, and she's paid off her Mercedes. Then disaster strikes. Her sick boyfriend goes missing from his hospital bed, and her firm's detective-who's also her ex-is eager for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book: Sour parents, a sleazy ex, '70s radicalism, and murder spoil a California lawyer's homecoming in this mystery by the author of Hidden Agenda.
Working in the LA office of a Wall Street law firm, attorney Willa Jansson was drowning in bankruptcy codes and mourning the loss of her love life. But now, after almost a year in that purgatory of dull men in thousand-dollar suits, she's landed a new position clerking for a federal...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
A burned-out attorney investigates a strange small-town suicide in this mystery from the author of The Good Fight.
Laura Di Palma's days as a high-profile San Francisco lawyer are behind her. Four hundred miles north of the city in her peaceful hometown, she now spends her days hiking in the woods and helping her lover cope with his war injuries. But their retreat is soon interrupted by a private detective-Laura's former flame-who's looking for help...