The Monarchs Are Flying
Marion Foster
Rather than face the double jeopardy of being tried for both murder and her lifestyle, Leslie is determined to plead guilty. Harriet Fordham Croft, the big-city lawyer brought into the case by the murdered woman’s husband, is equally committed to having Leslie stand trial. The result is a courtroom drama that changes the lives of both women forever.
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Marion Foster, a 67-year-old Canadian author, has given us a courtroom drama of substance and skill, a real page-turner.
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From Publishers Weekly
In the isolated, conservative Ontario village of Spruce Falls, TV reporter Leslie Taylor is arrested for the murder of her one-time lover, Marcie Denton, who, after their breakup, married an abusive man she had been trying to leave. Harriet Fordham Croft, a robust, older, divorced Toronto lawyer who has bouts of inexplicable loneliness, is called onto the case by Marcie’s sleazy husband: he wants to be sure that Leslie is prosecuted to the full extent of the law. But Harriet, attracted by Leslie’s courage and forthrightness, suspects that the community’s hostility to lesbianism has resulted in her being railroaded. After Leslie fires her scummy local lawyer, Harriet agrees to represent her and, in firm fashion, proves her innocence and gets the murderer to confess on the stand during the trial. Upon Leslie’s release, Harriet realizes that she has fallen in love with her client, and the two make their first tender overtures. As a mystery, this book fails. (Not enough information is given until the end for the reader to speculate satisfyingly about other murder suspects.) As a feminist narative, it’s passable.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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| ISBN | 9780889611207 |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Copyright Date | 1987 |
| Publication Date | 1987 |
| Publisher | Firebrand Books |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 217 |
| Series | Harriet Fordham Croft Mystery |
| # in Series | 1 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Subject | Fiction; General |
| BookID | 8411 |
