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Where Lawyers Fear to Tread introduces Willa Jansson, described by the New York Times as, "One of the most articulate and surely the wittiest of women sleuths at large in the genre."
All Willa has to do is finish her last year of law school, and she'll get the job of her idealistic dreams. The lawyer who routinely keeps her social activist parents out of jail—or at least joins them on their courthouse soapbox—asks only that she graduate with honors and on law review. So far, so good. Willa is near the top of her class at Malhousie Law, in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, and she's the law review's senior articles editor.
Everything changes the morning the new issue comes out. Furious professors, frazzled students, and local politicians converge on the basement office to confront Susan Green, the editor-in-chief. Willa has no clue, while she's dying of boredom in her federal income tax class, that Susan Green is slumped over a manuscript, dying of a blow to the head.
When another editor insists it's his right to take over the job, he's killed in exactly the same way. Willa's not exactly thrilled to be third in line, considering someone may be trying to climb the masthead one dead body at a time.
All Willa has to do is finish her last year of law school, and she'll get the job of her idealistic dreams. The lawyer who routinely keeps her social activist parents out of jail—or at least joins them on their courthouse soapbox—asks only that she graduate with honors and on law review. So far, so good. Willa is near the top of her class at Malhousie Law, in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, and she's the law review's senior articles editor.
Everything changes the morning the new issue comes out. Furious professors, frazzled students, and local politicians converge on the basement office to confront Susan Green, the editor-in-chief. Willa has no clue, while she's dying of boredom in her federal income tax class, that Susan Green is slumped over a manuscript, dying of a blow to the head.
When another editor insists it's his right to take over the job, he's killed in exactly the same way. Willa's not exactly thrilled to be third in line, considering someone may be trying to climb the masthead one dead body at a time.
