Jonnie Jacobs
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Description
Jonnie Jacobs was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a law degree from UC's Boalt Hall School of Law. In addition, she holds graduate degrees in English, from the University of Michigan, and in counseling, from California State University. She is an active member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and has served on the Edgar awards committee. She is a frequent lecturer on both the craft of writing and the world of mystery fiction. Source
Books
Lying with Strangers
Chloe Henderson has become the unwitting accomplice to a murder committed by her boyfriend. The victim's grief-stricken wife is shocked to discover the lies and secrets her husband has kept from her. And when her young son plows into Chloe with his bike, the women's lives become entwined in ways neither of them could have imagined. Journalist Joel Richards has his own reasons for being interested in the victim -- and in Chloe.
Witness for the defense
Includes material on the case of Steve Titus, Ted Bundy, Timothy Hennis, Tony Herrerez, Howard Haupt, Clarence Von Williams, John Demjanjuk, and Tyrone Briggs.
Intent to Harm 18 Cpy Solid
When a potential client known only as Betty is murdered right before her eyes and she is left wounded, San Francisco lawyer Kali O'Brien learns that this brutal crime is related to the puzzling disappearance of Betty's niece eight years earlier, immersing Kali in blackmail, corruption, sexual scandal, and family secrets. 20,000 first printing.
The next victim
A body count that's rising. A lone witness on the run. A killer who'll do anything to buy silence.It's the most dangerous case of attorney Kali O'Brien's career—and it's hitting way too close to home.
Cold justice
San Francisco attorney Kali O'Brien's best friend is murdered by someone following the pattern of the Bayside Strangler. The problem is that the Bayside Strangler was just executed.
Murder among strangers
After stopping to help a woman with a flat tire, Kate Austen has been kidnapped, taken to Idaho, and framed for murder.
Motion To Dismiss (Kali O'Brien Mysteries)
Scrupulous San Francisco defense attorney Kali O'Brien knows how to play the odds in a system where reality can be shaded. Despite apassion for justice that doesn't allow for compromise, her newest case is casting doubt on the one principle she cherished most: the absolute dead certainty that her client is telling the truth. Grady Barrett, a wealthy computer magnate married to Kali's best friend, has been arraigned in the rape of Deirdre Nicholas. Even if the sex was consensual, that doesn't acquit him, in Kali's eyes, of an indiscretion that has shattered his marriage, and further eroded his dubious reputation as a man of principle. Especially in the shadow of Deirdre's vivid, emotional, and thoroughly convincing deposition--damning testimony that Barrett maintains is a clever and manipulative web of lies spun to trap him. Despite his pleas of innocence, Kali's instincts tell her that Barrett may be as guilty as sin. Then Deirdre plunges to her death from a second-story balcony. A tragic accident? Or cold-blooded murder? Now, bound to a client she is afraid to trust, Kali finds herself straddling the razor-sharp line between crime and punishment. It isn't long before she finds her own life in jeopardy as a veil of lies is lifted, and the pasts of everyone from victim to victimizer, from illicit lover to faithless friend, unfold with their own provocative surprises.