{"id":3911,"date":"2020-12-12T12:49:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2020-12-12T12:49:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T20:49:09","slug":"e-j-copperman-inherit-the-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/e-j-copperman-inherit-the-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"E.J. Copperman: Inherit the Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is a delicious, funny, perfect book.\u00a0 Copperman, a seasoned series veteran (Haunted Guest House, Asberger\u2019s, Mysterious Detective, Agent to the Paws, <\/em>and, as Jeff Cohen, Aaron Tucker<\/em> and Double Feature) <\/em>brings all his writing expertise to the table in Inherit the Shoes.\u00a0 <\/em>Lawyer Sandy Moss has just moved to California from New Jersey to start over.\u00a0 On her first day at her new law firm she\u2019s told to sit still and be quiet (she\u2019s new to defense, she\u2019s come from the prosecutor\u2019s side of the table), and, instead of being quiet, she speaks up.<\/p>\n

Her firm is negotiating the divorce of a well known TV star and his wife, a singer whose star has fallen. \u00a0Their separation is acrimonious and much of it seems to center on \u201cJimmy\u2019s Shoes.\u201d\u00a0 When Sandy steps up with a kind of common sense remark toward the end of the proceedings, her new boss is furious, but the client, Patrick McNabb, says she has passion and wants her as his attorney.\u00a0 When he\u2019s arrested shortly after for murdering his soon to be ex \u2013 with a bow and arrow no less \u2013 Sandy gets a crash course on running a murder case with only the help of an aspiring law student who seems to want to put the moves on her.<\/p>\n

This kind of caper mystery needs a light but steady hand.\u00a0 Writers like Donald E. Westlake, Lawrence Block (in his burglar incarnation), and more recently, Catriona McPherson, are all similarly gifted.\u00a0 Copperman has such a sure hand, such a comfortable and believable writing voice, and such a wry sense of humor that his books are a pure pleasure to read.<\/p>\n

The story of Sandy\u2019s hurried lesson in defending a client who ignores what she tells him and who charms most he comes into contact with, is hard to put down.\u00a0 When the attempts on Patrick\u2019s life and the threats to Sandy herself accelerate the story takes on a real urgency.\u00a0 Laid on top of the humor that permeates every page, this is a knock out combination.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also full of Copperman\/Cohen\u2019s love of the movies.\u00a0 The \u201cJimmy\u2019s shoes\u201d the pair were fighting over belonged to Jimmy Cagney \u2013 he wore them in Yankee Doodle Dandy.\u00a0 While Sandy pooh poohs the value of this kind of item, there are of course many collectors and plenty of movie lovers who would beg to differ.\u00a0 But her matter of factness is a nice contrast to Patrick\u2019s over the top passion.<\/p>\n

Sandy is the kind of character you root for from page one forward.\u00a0 It\u2019s fun to see how she figures things out (she was way ahead of me) and fun to see how this fictional trial unfolds.\u00a0 Her new to California status is also entertaining.\u00a0 This story was witty and clever, with twists and turns coming just at the right beat of the story\u2019s progress.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t enjoyed a book more in quite awhile, and I can\u2019t recommend it more highly.<\/p>\n

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This is a delicious, funny, perfect book.\u00a0 Copperman, a seasoned series veteran (Haunted Guest House, Asberger\u2019s, Mysterious Detective, Agent to the Paws, and, as Jeff Cohen, Aaron Tucker and Double Feature) brings all his writing expertise to the table in Inherit the Shoes.\u00a0 Lawyer Sandy Moss has just moved to California from New Jersey to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[488,485,209,484,487,486,489],"class_list":["post-3911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-california","tag-caper","tag-e-j-copperman","tag-humor","tag-lawyers","tag-severn-house","tag-tv-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}