Other People's Skeletons (Five Star Mystery Series) [Hardcover]

Julie Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1999 | Series: Five Star Mystery Series

"Nobody gets inside her characters like Julie Smith."
Linda Barnes
When Rebecca Schwartz learns that her best friend and legal partner Chris Nicholson is accused of murder and won't give an alibi, Rebecca gets curious. To her amazement, Rebecca finds that her partner has a secret life--and so did the victim, dashing critic Jason McKendrick. For that matter, so does everyone else in the case, causing Rebecca to wonder what planet she's stumbled onto. One thing she knows with certainty: She has to shake some skeletons from the closets--and fast--or Chris is going to prison....


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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

San Francisco lawyer Rebecca Schwartz again turns to sleuthing when her partner, Chris Nicholson, becomes a prime suspect in the hit-and-run death of Chronicle arts critic Jason McKendrick . Chris says she didn't even know the victim, but an eyewitness places her car at the crime scene. Her alibi could get laughed out of court: she was with a group of fellow psychics, and everyone was in "deep trance." Rob Burns, a Chronicle reporter and Rebecca's ex-boyfriend, suggests that they cooperate to find the murderer. As they dig, Jason's life emerges like a puzzle of mismatched pieces: a glamorous job, a depressing hovel of a home and an array of women friends who offer strikingly different perspectives on him. Soon Chris's psychic chums, who ooze sincerity, use their otherworldly skills to nudge the investigation in the right direction. Although Jason's death emerges as one of a series of unhappy events in the lives of some people who have been cruelly mangled by fate, this fact--like a frightening medical problem that Rebecca develops--fails to lend substance to the tale, which doesn't compare with Smith's ( Jazz Funeral ) best.
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Review

"'Julie Smith writes like jazz should sound - cool, complex, and penetrating right to the heart.' Val McDermid 'Smith has perfect pitch...and gives us a multilayered mystery. A believable heroine.' Booklist 'Smith is a very funny writer with a nice feel for the absurdities of urban life.' San Francisco Examiner" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: Five Star; Standard print hardcover ed edition (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078621953X
• ISBN-13: 978-0786219537
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,226,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Author of the Skip Langdon and Talba Wallis mystery series; Edgar-winner; New Orleans resident.

Also founder of www.booksBnimble.com, an electronic publishing start-up, and author of the YA paranormal adventure, CURSEBUSTERS!

Latest adventure:
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