This collection of nine stories personally selected by Lia Matera features Dead Drunk, the short story that won her the Shamus Award, and Dream Lawyer, with Matera's popular hippie-turned-San Francisco lawyer Willa Janssen. In the title story, a defense lawyer takes on her ex-husband as a client when he is charged with killing his second wife. A mushroom expert unknowingly serves poisonous wild mushrooms in Destroying Angel, and a new wife faces a...