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Mystery/Thriller Book Review: Judgment at Santa Monica by E.J. Copperman. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9098-6 publishersweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from publishersweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Rochelle M. OâGorman Correspondent
With a spot-on sendup of Los Angeles and the movie biz, veteran mystery writer E.J. Copperman (pen name of Jeffrey Cohen) provokes plenty of laughter in his latest whodunit, âInherit the Shoes.â
Copperman introduces attorney Sandra Moss, an East Coast transplant with a caustic sense of humor. California represents change to Sandy; sheâs a former assistant county prosecutor from New Jersey whoâs tired of murder cases, and sheâs starting a new job at a large, successful, family law firm.
But to her consternation, her first case at the firm â originally a simple divorce settlement â turns into a murder. Her client, the TV star Patrick McNabb, is the prime suspect when his wife, the former star singer Patsy DeNunzio, is found dead with an arrow from the John Wayne film âThe Searchersâ protruding from her chest. Worse, Patrick played a lawyer on TV and therefore thinks he can do so in real