Mean Streak - Hardcover

Carolyn Wheat, one of the mystery world's emerging stars, proves that she's the equal of any of the best writers in the legal jungle in her new Cass Jameson novel. The courtroom crackle and icy insights into the hearts of lawyers, criminals, cops, and judges that the author soaked up in her years as a Legal Aid defense attorney are apparent on every page, and her writing is full of energy and compassion. Jameson's ex-lover, a manipulative mob lawyer, is charged with bribery and wants her to defend him. But is he counting on her brains or her heart to get him off? Other Wheaties in paperback are Fresh Kills and Where Nobody Dies.

Carolyn Wheat, a former defense attorney with the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn, New York, is the author of four previous Cass Jameson novels, including Where Nobody Dies, the Edgar Award-nominated Dead Man's Thoughts, Fresh Kills and the Edgar Award-nominated Mean Streak. Her short story, "Life, for Short" published in the collection Sisters in Crime 4, was nominated for a Macavity Award, and her short story, "Accidents Will Happen" published in the collection Malice Domestic 5 was nominated for an Agatha Award.