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Jeffrey A. Cohen
Dear Librarian, THE KILLING OF MINDI QUINTANA, draws on my experience as a trial attorney in Philadelphia, where I was born and raised. The story I tell is based on media circuses we all have witnessed in recent years, murderers treated as celebrities, victims' lives ignored. Freddy Builder is certain he is meant for more. Meant for more, meant for better, and lacking only an occasion to rise to. And now that occasion is murder—of Mindi Quintana, an old college flame. There's a televised trial upcoming for Freddy. His crime is major news. Freddy is writing the book, the story everyone wants. A new celebrity murderer is taking the stage—a killer with a book, a jailhouse literary sensation. Freddy's defense attorney, Philip, watches in disgust. A career public defender, Philip thought he'd seen evil in all its incarnations, losing his outrage, his passion for the law, and his marriage. But Freddy's case is a turning point—the public's sympathy for the "poet-murderer" stirs something dormant inside. To stop Freddy, and to vindicate Mindi, Philip will have to violate his oath, even break the law. But with the help of Mindi's best friend he will give Mindi back the truth of her life and death. "Clever, twisted and ultimately insightful, Jeff Cohen's THE KILLING OF MINDI QUINTANA upends legality and redefines justice—a dazzling debut novel. Cohen has created one of the most instantly despicable characters in crime fiction." -Burl Barer, Edgar Award–winning author of Body Count and Murder in the Family Thanks – Jeffrey A. Cohen www.JeffreyACohenBooks.com
The Killing of Mindi Quintana / Jeffrey A. Cohen / Welcome Rain Publishers / Hardcover; 288 pages
Price: $24.95 / ISBN: 978-1566499583 / Published: May 2010 Jeffrey A. Cohen is one of our featured authors this week. Click here to view his reader comments and feel free to use them in your newsletters. |