Anthologies
The Prosecution Rests
Mystery Writers of America presents The Prosecution Rests: New Stories about Courtrooms, Criminals, and the Law (Paperback), published in April 2009. Joel's story is titled Knife Fight...
Public Defender Elizabeth Rosenthal is defending Travis Runnels who is on trial for his life. Travis is charged with carving up Diego Hernandez like a Christmas goose in a drug deal gone bad. The evidence can go either way depending on whether the jury believes Luis Pilco, the rat who points the finger at Travis, or Shaila Dewan, Travis' mother who says her son was with her when Diego was murdered. Luis wants his freedom, Shaila wants her wine and Elizabeth Rosenthal wants justice, her kind of justice. When the jury returns its verdict, the scales of justice are balanced in ways no one could ever have imagined.
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Little, Brown, & Company April 2009, 9780316012522
Praise
"Bestseller Fairstein (Killer Heat) has put together a stellar anthology, presented by the Mystery Writers of America, that will appeal both to contemporary noir fans and devotees of Law & Order. The late Edward Hoch starts things off nicely with The Secret Session, a concise whodunit centering on judicial corruption at the appellate level. In Barbara Parker's deliciously creepy A Clerk's Life, a put-upon law clerk for a major Florida firm stumbles on two murders. Joel Goldman highlights the ethical challenges of criminal defense work in Knife Fight, as does Eileen Dunbaugh in The Letter. By way of counterpoint, Michele Martinez's The Mother and Morley Swingle's Hard Blows dramatize the challenges prosecutors encounter, even when the defendants they charge are, in fact, guilty. The consistently high quality of the 22 selections will lead many to hope the MWA will sponsor more volumes in this vein."
—Publishers Weekly Starred Review (Apr.)
