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Where Lawyers Fear to Tread

(1987)
(The first book in the Willa Jansson series)
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Awards
1988 Anthony Award for Best Paperback original (nominee)
1988 Macavity Award for Best First Novel (nominee)

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.

Everyone at Malhousie, the small San Francisco law school, is stunned by the crime - including professors and the staff at the review. And none of them are above suspicion. Willa, now in charge and none too happy about it, launches a private investigation that succeeds not only in compromising her honor, but getting her arrested, as she chases one blind lead after another and comes face-to-face with the banality of evil....


Genre: Mystery

Praise for this book

"One of the brightest stars of the new generation of detective fiction." - Sharyn McCrumb


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