Death Turns A Trick (The Rebecca Schwartz Series, Book 1)

Death Turns A Trick (The Rebecca Schwartz Series, Book 1)

The FIRST book in a cozy series by an Edgar Winner
â€œFunny and witty, with a clever, outspoken heroine.â€ -Library Journal
A ROLLICKING TALE OF MURDER, ROMANCE, AND A BORDELLOâ€¦
Rebecca Schwartz, nice Jewish lawyer with a few too many fantasies, is happily playing the piano in a whorehouse when she suddenly finds herself assigned to make sure a near-naked state senator escapes a police raid. That dirty job done, a lovely evening turns even more delightful when sheâ€™s picked up by the cops and spends the next two hours at the Hall of Justice. Could this day get any worse? Of course! Guess who arrives home to find a dead hooker on her living room floor?

Handsome Parker Phillips, Rebeccaâ€™s new beau and the most attractive man sheâ€™s met in ages, is arrested for the murder. (Worse, she suspects he might actually have done it.)

On the plus side, another very attractive man is following the case--reporter Rob Burns of the San Francisco Chronicle, a possible ally. And there are other possibilities.

Fans of Janet Evanovich, Stephanie Bond, and Elizabeth Peters will get a kick out of this one.

Excerpt:
Basically, I am the kind of girl that mothers wish their sons would marry. But nobodyâ€™s son did, and anyway I couldnâ€™t be bothered. I was too busy living up to my father's ambition for me. Or what I imagined it to be. He always said, â€œBe a doctor, Rebecca. Thereâ€™s no money in law,â€ but anybody could see he was joking. When I was a little girl, he used to take me to watch him in court, and when I was a teenager, heâ€™d discuss his cases with me. What did I know from doctors? I had a lawyer for a role model.

Now if you had led this kind of life and someone came along and said, â€œListen, how would you like to play the piano in a whorehouse for just one nightâ€”youâ€™ll be among friends; nothing can happen,â€ wouldnâ€™t you do it? Especially if it were a feminist bordello? It wouldnâ€™t have to be a case of getting back at your mom.

I should explain about Elena. She is a prostitute, and sheâ€™s also very close to being a madam, only she isnâ€™t quite because this is a co-op bordello weâ€™re talking about. Itâ€™s co-op because ostensibly everyone has an equal say in decision-making and the money is split among the members, but Elena is actually the brains and the driving force of the thing. Sheâ€™d be a madam in the old-fashioned sense if she werenâ€™t political.

I got to know her when she got busted and Jeannette von Phister asked me to take her case. Despite certain reservations I have about prostitution as a feminist issue (â€œhorizontal hostility,â€ Jeannette calls it), I was already on the legal staff of HYENA, the â€œloose womenâ€™s organizationâ€ Jeannette had founded. As you no doubt know, HYENA is an acronym for â€œHead Your Ethics toward a New Age,â€ and its ultimate goal is to get prostitution legalized.

Sitting over crab salad and white wine in my gray flannel blazer and Cacharel blouse, I felt pretty naive as Elena spun tales about a world of crystal chandeliers and high-heeled sandals. A world where indulgence of personal vanity was not only not condemned but was actually applauded. I loved getting a peek at it.
Country USA
Manufacturer booksBnimble
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-12-12
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	booksBnimble
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-12-12
Format	Kindle eBook

Death Turns A Trick (The Rebecca Schwartz Series, Book 1)

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