Deadly Dining: A Stan Turner Mystery: Volume 11 - Softcover

Manchee, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935722786 ISBN 13: 9781935722786

Publisher: TOP, 2013

Synopsis

A triple homicide is caught on tape by a professional photographer yet the person or persons responsible and the motive for this grisly crime are a mystery. This is the kind of high-profile murder case that attorney Paula Waters loves but as she tries to unravel the twisted facts a critical witness is murdered and two others disappear. When the trial finally begins and she thinks she has everything figured out, Stan informs her that she has it all wrong! Paula isn’t happy with Stan’s revelations, particularly since he has been of little help to her during the trial. In the past he has been right there with her from the beginning to the end, but this time he has been busy helping their new associate Jodie Marshall with her civil defense of an ex-Army MP who thwarted a thief in a jewelry store heist but managed to shoot the store owner in the process. Stan has his own troublesome bankruptcy case too. A Pakistani immigrant has be defrauded of his life savings of $250,000 by a thug preying on fellow countrymen wanting to immigrate to the U.S. Stan puts his client into a chapter 11 reorganization but the thug has little respect for U.S. laws or its judicial system causing Stan’s plan to go awry. Stan’s unexplained absences from the office further exacerbate his shaky relations with Paula, particularly when she discovers he’s apparently having liaisons with a hooker!

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Review:

"...Filled with the twists and turns and the red herrings we have come to associate with Manchee and his Stan Turner Mysteries, Deadly Dining is a marvellous addition to the growing body of work produced by this talented attorney writer who says he finds grist for his writing in the cases he has worked on in his lawyering work.

"Settings are well defined, descriptive situations, locales, and behaviors all show an innate realization of the human mind and its workings. Characters are well fleshed, bad guys are often really bad, and good guys may not really be all that good. Surprises abound, ultimately the murders are solved satisfactorily as is Stan’s unexpected, rather loutish, behavior."

Molly Martin, Booklore Review

 

About the Author:

William Manchee is a consumer lawyer by trade and practices in Dallas with his son Jim. Originally from southern California, he lives now in Plano, Texas with his wife Janet. He is the author of the eleven volume Stan Turner Mystery series inspired by many actual cases from his past. His other works include the Rich Coleman Novels Death Pact, Plastic Gods, and Unconscionable and a science fiction series, the Tarizon Saga. He is also the author of the nonfiction book Go Broke, Die Rich, Turning Around the Troubled Small Business.

About this edition

• Publisher: TOP
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1935722786
• ISBN 13: 9781935722786
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338