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 unknowingly serves poisonous wild mushrooms in Destroying Angel, and a new wife faces a dilemma when her husband has a stroke in Do Not Resuscitate.
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 unknowingly serves poisonous wild mushrooms in Destroying Angel, and a new wife faces a dilemma when her husband has a stroke in Do Not Resuscitate.