Tag: Courtroom novel
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with ‘Verdict in the Desert’
Enjoy Hispanic culture and a good read with “Verdict in the Desert.” A rich alcoholic attorney defends a Mexican woman accused of murdering her white abusive husband and falls in love with the Latina interpreter in a prejudice Arizona town in 1959. “An exceptionally well written, complex and riveting novel from beginning to end, “Verdict…
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‘Verdict in the Desert’ coming in April
My new novel “Verdict in the Desert” will be released April 30 by Arte Público Press, the nation’s largest and most established publisher of contemporary and recovery literature by U.S. Hispanic authors. In the summer of 1959, everyone knows his place in Arizona. Michael Shaw is an alcoholic lawyer struggling with his reputation as the son of…