Lia Matera: Counsel for the Defense and other Stories (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
An entertaining short story collection from Shamus Award-winner Lia Matera.
This collection of nine stories personally selected by Lia Matera features "Dead Drunk," the short story that won her the Shamus Award, and "Dream Lawyer," with Matera's popular hippie-turned-San Francisco lawyer Willa Janssen. In the title story, a defense lawyer takes on her ex-husband as a client when he is charged with killing his second wife.

A mushroom expert unwittingly serves poisonous wild mushrooms in "Destroying Angel," and a new wife faces a dilemma when her husband has a stroke in "Do Not Resuscitate." To free his sister from a psychiatric hospi- tal, her brother threatens to blow up a Grange hall full of his neighbors in "If It Can't Be True." These stories and the rest will entrance you, entertain you, and keep you awake at night.

"Matera writes with intelligence and feeling about issues that still hurt and people who still care." -- New York Times

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction
Counsel for the Defense
Destroying Angel
Easy Go
Do Not Resuscitate
The River Mouth
Performance Crime
Dead Drunk
If It Can't Be True
Dream Lawyer

Lia Matera: Counsel for the Defense and other Stories. Five Star, ISBN: 0786225378 (June, 2000), Hardcover, 176 p., $20.95.