Thanks to her mentor, elderly, agoraphobic obituary writer Shep Ladderback, Andy Cosicki once again finds herself plumbing the dark depths of Philadelphia after she witnesses a sand truck pouring its cargo through the broken window of a parked car containing a corpse. 10,000 first printing. - (Baker & Taylor)
With the help of her mentor, obituary writer Shep Ladderback, Andy Cosicki once again investigates a murder after she witnesses a sand truck pouring its cargo through the broken window of a parked car containing a corpse. - (Baker & Taylor)
When Andy Cosicki is summoned to the boss's office to describe the murder she discovered, she finds a police lieutenant and Michael McSloan, the paper's lawyer, waiting to hear her story. It requires some effort to not be distracted by McSloan's good looks, even though the scene was unforgettable - attorney Charles Muckler had been trapped in his car while a truckload of wet sand was pumped into it.
Good looks are not always matched with good character, however, and it doesn't take Andy long to see beyond McSloan's gorgeous profile. She isn't all that surprised when his body is found at the foot of his high-rise apartment building. He definitely didn't jump; the only question is, which of his many enemies was the one to do the pushing?
In trying to put two and two together, Andy gets caught up with her concern for McSloan's disabled young son and for another boy, who wrote to her "Mr. Action" column for help. It takes knowledgeable obituary writer Shep Ladderback to point her down the right path. The oddly matched but delightful pair is just the team to track down a killer with a serious distaste for lawyers. - (Blackwell North Amer)
When Andy Cosicki is summoned to the boss’s office to describe the murder she discovered, she finds a police lieutenant and Michael McSloan, the paper’s lawyer, waiting to hear her story. It requires some effort to not be distracted by McSloan’s good looks, even though the scene was unforgettable—attorney Charles Muckler had been trapped in his car while a truckload of wet sand was pumped into it.
Good looks are not always matched with good character, however, and it doesn’t take Andy long to see beyond McSloan’s gorgeous profile. She isn’t all that surprised when his body is found at the foot of his high-rise apartment building. He definitely didn’t jump; the only question is, which of his many enemies was the one to do the pushing?
In trying to put two and two together, Andy gets caught up with her concern for McSloan’s disabled young son and for another boy, who wrote to her “Mr. Action” column for help. It takes knowledgeable obituary writer Shep Ladderback to point her down the right path. The oddly matched but delightful pair is just the team to track down a killer with a serious distaste for lawyers.
In his fourth “Street” mystery, Bill Kent couples his knowledge as a journalist with the skills of a top-notch writer to build a world and a story that captivates the reader.
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Holtzbrinck)
When Andy Cosicki is summoned to the boss's office to describe the murder she discovered, she finds a police lieutenant and Michael McSloan, the paper's lawyer, waiting to hear her story. It requires some effort to not be distracted by McSloan's good looks, even though the scene was unforgettable--attorney Charles Muckler had been trapped in his car while a truckload of wet sand was pumped into it.
Good looks are not always matched with good character, however, and it doesn't take Andy long to see beyond McSloan's gorgeous profile. She isn't all that surprised when his body is found at the foot of his high-rise apartment building. He definitely didn't jump; the only question is, which of his many enemies was the one to do the pushing?
In trying to put two and two together, Andy gets caught up with her concern for McSloan's disabled young son and for another boy, who wrote to her "Mr. Action" column for help. It takes knowledgeable obituary writer Shep Ladderback to point her down the right path. The oddly matched but delightful pair is just the team to track down a killer with a serious distaste for lawyers.
In his fourth "Street" mystery, Bill Kent couples his knowledge as a journalist with the skills of a top-notch writer to build a world and a story that captivates the reader.
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McMillan Palgrave)
Bill Kent is a writer, journalist, and critic. His writing has appeared in more than forty regional and national publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Philadelphia Magazine. He lives in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, with his wife and son.
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Holtzbrinck)
Bill Kent is a writer, journalist, and critic. His writing has appeared in more than forty regional and national publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Philadelphia Magazine. He lives in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, with his wife and son.
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McMillan Palgrave)
Booklist Reviews
Kent's Street Legal is the fourth in a journalist-sleuth series starring the somewhat gimmicky duo of Shep Ladderback, an agoraphobic, old-newsroom-type obituary writer, and his legperson, Andrea Cosicki, a 22-year-old woman who writes the "Mr. Action" consumer-advice column. Both work for a Philadelphia daily. Cosicki witnesses the aftermath of a murder on her way out of an awards banquet at the Hot Lead Club--a wheeling-and-dealing lawyer known as "the Sandman" has been asphyxiated with a pile of sand in his own parked car. After the Sandman murder, more lawyers are slain by an apparently crusading killer. Kent gives readers plenty of newsroom atmosphere, with the push and pull between old newsies (Ladderback) and brash newbies (Cosicki), and he constructs an engaging detective story by creatively combining the obit writer's narrative skills with the crusading consumer-reporter's ability to ferret out wrongdoing. ((Reviewed May 1, 2006)) Copyright 2006 Booklist Reviews.
