Sheer Gall [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Dutton (1996)
• ASIN: B001E2YQ9Y
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Michael Kahn is a trial lawyer by day and an author at night. He wrote his first novel, GRAVE DESIGNS, on a challenge from his wife Margi, who got tired of listening to the same answer whenever she asked him about a book he was reading. "Not bad," he would say, "but I could write a better book than that." "Then write one," she finally said, "or please shut up." So he shut up, and then he wrote one.

Kahn is the award-winning author of: seven Rachel Gold novels; an eighth novel, THE MOURNING SEXTON, under the pen name Michael Baron; and several short stories.

In addition to his day job as a lawyer, he is an adjunct professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches a class on censorship and free expression. Married to his high school sweetheart, he is the father of five and the grandfather of, so far, three.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great Rachel Gold mystery, October 5, 2000

By 

J. Gilbert (West Des Moines, IA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Sheer Gall (Rachel Gold Mystery) (Paperback)

The fifth in a great series of mysteries. Rachel is a brilliant, beautiful, crime-solving attorney with an appealing cast of confidants. These books should be far more popular.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sheer Pleasure, May 17, 2000

By 

Charles R. Slater - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sheer Gall (Rachel Gold Mystery) (Paperback)

This fifth and best of the Rachel Gold mysteries starts with a deception, ends with a surprise and in between involves our heroine in myriad plot twists surrounding a most unusual profit scheme and a most unusual murder. Rachel, spunky and vulnerable, a Jewish attorney with a nose for detection, works her way through all the puzzles most satisfyingly and even ends up close friends with one who started out as an enemy. Rachel is a delight as she peels the layers of the puzzle like a rose and at the end this reader is left with only one question: When will we see the sixth Rachel Gold book?

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rachel Gold and Her Friends Are The Greatest!, June 26, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Sheer Gall (Rachel Gold Mystery) (Hardcover)

I've just finished this latest of Michael Kahn's books, and I eagerly await his next! His characters are so fully developed and interesting. If you like Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, and Sue Grafton, you'll thoroughly enjoy ALL of Michael Kahn's books.

This one is the best so far. The premise alone is so interesting & different! Who would have thought animal by-products would be a reason for murder!