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Product Description: They say that living well is the best revenge. But attorney Laura Di Palma may not have the opportunity to find out. Her former boss keeps trying to torpedo her new solo law practice, and when his slanders cost Laura her most important client, this lawyer decides to sue...read more

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9781416572800 | Simon & Schuster, August 13, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: They say that living well is the best revenge.

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Product Description: Just when attorney Willa Jansson is about to take a little time off from her job at a San Francisco multimedia firm, a friend calls in a special favor. So, on her first day of what should have been her well-earned vacation, Willa's off to Santa Cruz to solve what she hopes will be a simple case of vehicular manslaughter and felony hit-and-run...read more

Paperback:

9781416567707 | Simon & Schuster, June 22, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Just when attorney Willa Jansson is about to take a little time off from her job at a San Francisco multimedia firm, a friend calls in a special favor.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781564312136 | Sunset Productions, June 1, 1997, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Willa Jansson is horrified about what she's getting herself into when psychiatrist Fred Hershey asks her to defend his patient against charges of vehicular manslaughter.

Willa Jansson's friend, Arthur, is under suspicion when his assistant is murdered--a Kwakiutl shaman also working for a reclusive computer designer. Hiding out in a mountain cabin, Willa and Arthur barely evade arrest--and the real killer--long enough to learn that age-old truths can come in high-tech packages. Based on the June '96 hardcover release from Simon & Schuster. 2 cassettes.

Paperback:

9781416567691 | Simon & Schuster, June 22, 2007, cover price $17.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781564311962 | Sunset Productions, November 1, 1996, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Willa Jansson's friend, Arthur, is under suspicion when his assistant is murdered--a Kwakiutl shaman also working for a reclusive computer designer.

A collection of twenty original crime stories includes contributions by Edna Buchanan, Jeffery Deaver, Jeremiah Healy, Laurie R. King, Margaret Maron, Joyce Carol Oates, Bill Pronzini, and many others. Reprint.
By Lia Matera (editor)

Hardcover:

9780060192259 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A collection of twenty original crime stories includes contributions by Edna Buchanan, Jeffrey Deaver, Jeremiah Healy, Laurie R.

Paperback:

9780061097331 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, April 1, 2001), cover price $6.50 | About this edition: A collection of twenty original crime stories includes contributions by Edna Buchanan, Jeffery Deaver, Jeremiah Healy, Laurie R.

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Product Description: Attorney Willa Jansson's mother has never balked at breaking the law, especially not for a good cause. So when Willa learns her mother has flouted federal regulations and gone off to Cuba, she figures it's just a harmless pilgrimage to lefty Graceland...read more
By Anna Fields (narrator) and Lia Matera

CD/Spoken Word:

9780786196722 | Mp3 edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Attorney Willa Jansson's mother has never balked at breaking the law, especially not for a good cause.
9780786198849 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2000), cover price $56.00 | About this edition: Attorney Willa Jansson's mother has never balked at breaking the law, especially not for a good cause.

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Product Description: Book by Matera, Lia (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780786225378 | Five Star, June 1, 2000, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Book by Matera, Lia

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Product Description: Attorney Willa Jansson's mother has never balked at breaking the law, especially not for a good cause. So when Willa learns her mother has flouted federal regulations and gone off to Cuba, she figures it's just a harmless pilgrimage to lefty Graceland...read more

Paperback:

9780743242523 | Simon & Schuster, April 5, 2002, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Attorney Willa Jansson's mother has never balked at breaking the law, especially not for a good cause.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786117628 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 2000), cover price $39.95

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Product Description: Editor Lia Matera has compiled an irresistible concoction of mystery and suspense filled with the clever twists and chilling turns of breakups, family feuds, broken partnerships, and lovers' quarrels. As this acclaimed cast of authors probes the minefield of intimace, devotion, and trust upon which human lives are built, Irreconcilable Differences explodes with heart-stopping mayhem...read more
By Lia Matera (editor)

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780787120153 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, December 1, 1999), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Editor Lia Matera has compiled an irresistible concoction of mystery and suspense filled with the clever twists and chilling turns of breakups, family feuds, broken partnerships, and lovers' quarrels.

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Attorney Willa Jansson's mother has always been politically radical, but when she fails to return from a trip to Cuba, Willa is forced to head to Castro's country to investigate. Reprint. AB.

Hardcover:

9780684834702 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: When attorney Willa Jansson's mother disappears during a visit to Cuba, Willa risks disbarment to journey there and rescue her, and the closer she comes to finding her mother, the more dangerous her search beomes

Paperback:

9780671004217 | Pocket Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When attorney Willa Jansson's mother disappears during a visit to Cuba, Willa risks disbarment to journey there and rescue her, and the closer she comes to finding her mother, the more dangerous her search beomes

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780787117351 | Abridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, May 1, 1998), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Attorney Willa Jansson's mother has never balked at breaking the law, especially not for a good cause.

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Product Description: 5 Books on 10 Cassettes: • Slaughter in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone • Tripwire by Jay Brandon • Last Chants by Lia Matera • Saint Mudd by Steve Thayer • The Last Suppers by Diane Mott Davidson The Best of Mysteries audio collection is the very first title in the Literate Listener(tm) series...read more

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781886089525 | Abridged edition (Topics Entertainment, November 1, 1999), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: 5 Books on 10 Cassettes: • Slaughter in the Ashes by William W.

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Product Description: Overworked, overcaffeinated, and as cranky as a sequestered jury, Willa Jansson has a law review to get out. As second in command to the brilliant Susan Green, the ideal law student and perfect editor, Willa's rank jumps up a step when Susan's head is bashed in over a brief at the law review office...read more

Hardcover:

9780786218141 | Five Star, May 1, 1999, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Overworked, overcaffeinated, and as cranky as a sequestered jury, Willa Jansson has a law review to get out.

Paperback:

9780345371256 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, May 1, 1991), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Overworked, overcaffeinated, and as cranky as a sequestered jury, Willa Jansson has a law review to get out.

A seemingly cut-and-dried case of vehicular manslaughter in Santa Cruz puts San Francisco attorney Willa Johnson on the run from snipers, helicopters, reporters, and her own interfering mother in a case with a bizarre twist. Reprint. NYT.

Hardcover:

9780684834696 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1997, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Attorney Willa Jansson finds herself defending a man who has been indicted for a hit and run accident but who claims to have been abducted by aliens before the accident happened

Paperback:

9780671004200 | Pocket Books, June 1, 1998, cover price $6.50 | About this edition: Attorney Willa Jansson finds herself defending a man who has been indicted for a hit-and-run accident but who claims to have been abducted by aliens before the accident happened

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Willa Jansson becomes a fugitive, along with an old family friend, mythology scholar Arthur Kenna, the prime suspect in a murder, and finds herself caught up in a bizarre world of eccentric high-tech software designers as she investigates the crime to clear her and Arthur's names. Reprint. AB. NYT.

Hardcover:

9780684810850 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1996, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Willa Jansson saves her mythology professor friend Arthur Kenna from arrest, but soon they are both suspected of murdering Arthur's assistant, a Kwakiutl shaman, and become the targets of the actual killer

Paperback:

9780671880965 | Pocket Books, June 1, 1997, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Willa Jansson saves her mythology professor friend Arthur Kenna from arrest, but soon they are both suspected of murdering Arthur's assistant, a Kwakiutl shaman, and become the targets of the actual killer

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Suing her former boss when his slander costs her new solo law practice its most important client, Laura Di Palma witnesses a murder for which the only clue is the victim's elusive dying words. Reprint. K. PW. NYT. AB.

Hardcover:

9780684803128 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1995, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Laura Di Palma gets involved in two cases that have her running for her life as she investigates the shooting of an attorney who dies in her arms and a bullet that strikes the D.

Paperback:

9780671001964 | Pocket Books, July 1, 1996, cover price $6.50 | About this edition: Suing her former boss when his slander costs her new solo law practice its most important client, Laura Di Palma witnesses a murder for which the only clue is the victim's elusive dying words.

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Product Description: Laura hangs out her shingle. She's ready to take any case, even a woman who claims that her New Age guru videotapes group sex sessions for therapeutic reasons--tapes that wind up at the local porno parlors. Laura's investigation takes her from a private fantasy island to kinky sex club back rooms to corporate boardrooms...read more

Hardcover:

9780671741976 | Simon & Schuster, February 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: San Francisco attorney Laura Di Palma takes on her most dangerous case when she investigates a northern California guru who has been accused of distributing pornographic videotapes of his followers

Paperback:

9780671888404 | Pocket Books, June 1, 1995, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Laura hangs out her shingle.

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Escaping the world of law, burnt-out attorney Laura Di Palma takes up residence in the country, but finds her rest ruined by the arrival of her former lover, detective Sandy Arkelett. Reprint. NYT.

Hardcover:

9780671741969 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1992, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Laura Di Palma becomes involved in a suspicious suicide case and grows intrigued by the dead woman's past and by her charismatic husband

Paperback:

9780345380593 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, April 1, 1993), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Laura Di Palma becomes involved in a suspicious suicide case and grows intrigued by the dead woman's past and by her charismatic husband

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Willa Jansson tries to start over with a new legal clerk position in San Francisco, but her Los Angeles woes follow her as she gets mixed up with her old boyfriend and involved in a case of conflicting interests and political grudges. Reprint. NYT.

Hardcover:

9780671685607 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 1991, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The betrayals and radicalism of the 1970s come back to haunt Bay Area attorney Willa Jansson when she becomes involved in the machine-gun slaying of Christine Rugieri, a woman who twenty years before had testified against her husband and his extremist cohorts

Paperback:

9780345374455 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, May 1, 1992), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The betrayals and radicalism of the 1970s come back to haunt Bay Area attorney Willa Jansson when she becomes involved in the machine-gun slaying of Christine Rugieri, a woman who twenty years before had testified against her husband and his extremist cohorts

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Willa Jansson's colleagues are dropping like flies--first her boss at a radical left-wing law firm is murdered, then two yuppie corporate lawyers are killed--and when fingers are pointed at Willa, she must learn to play hardball. Reprint.

Paperback:

9780345371287 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 1992), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Willa Jansson's colleagues are dropping like flies--first her boss at a radical left-wing law firm is murdered, then two yuppie corporate lawyers are killed--and when fingers are pointed at Willa, she must learn to play hardball

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Product Description: "Has almost everytrhing 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."SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWSWorking for a fat-cat San Francsico law firm, Willa Jansson thought she'd seen everything...read more

Paperback:

9780345371263 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, November 1, 1991), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: "Has almost everytrhing a good mystery needs.

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Product Description: Laura Di Palma finally has it made. Eleven years ago, she ran from a broken marriage and her small northern California town in search of fame and fortune. As the smartest and most controversial young defense attorney in her high-class law firm, she found it...read more

Paperback:

9780345371270 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, July 1, 1991), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Laura Di Palma finally has it made.

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Product Description: Attorney Laura Di Palma is in complete control of her high-profile life -- she's about to become a partner, signed lithographs decorate the walls of her spectacular San Francisco apartment, and her Mercedes is paid for. But control turns to utter chaos when her sick lover, Hal, disappears from his hospital bed without a word...read more

Paperback:

9780345371072 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Attorney Laura Di Palma is in complete control of her high-profile life -- she's about to become a partner, signed lithographs decorate the walls of her spectacular San Francisco apartment, and her Mercedes is paid for.

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Defending an old politically idealistic friend draws lawyer Laura DiPalma into a fight with Feds, the New Left, her law partners, and her own materialism, in a mystery that also has Laura in a frantic hunt for her missing lover

Hardcover:

9780671685614 | Simon & Schuster, February 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Defending an old politically idealistic friend draws lawyer Laura DiPalma into a fight with Feds, the New Left, her law partners, and her own materialism, in a mystery that also has Laura in a frantic hunt for her missing lover

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