Today we have a wonderfully hilarious series based right here in my hometown of San Francisco. I was born and raised here in the Bay Area so it holds a special place for me. Go on a crazy romp through murder and mayhem with Edgar-winning author Julie Smith’s Rebecca Schwartz series. You are sure to enjoy these cozy mysteries with our outspoken heroine, Rebecca Schwartz, whose witty, funny and has a few too many fantasies. Enjoy!
Death Turns A Trick (Rebecca Schwartz #1) (A Rebecca Schwartz Mystery) (The Rebecca Schwartz Series)
Julie Smith
Genre: World Literature | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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A rollicking tale of murder, romance, and a bordello…
The first book in the Rebecca Schwartz mystery series by Edgar Award Winner Julie Smith
Rebecca Schwartz, nice Jewish lawyer with a few too many fantasies, is happily playing the piano in a whorehouse when she suddenly finds herself assigned to make sure a near-naked state senator escapes a police raid. That dirty job done, a lovely evening turns even more delightful when she’s picked up by the cops and spends the next two hours at the Hall of Justice. Could this day get any worse? Of Course! Guess who arrives home to find a dead hooker on her living room floor!
Handsome Parker Phillips, Rebecca’s new beau and the most attractive man she’s met in ages, is arrested for the murder. (Worse, she suspects he might actually have done it.)
On the plus side, another very attractive man is following the case, reporter Rob Burns of the San Francisco Chronicle, a possible ally. And there are other possibilities.
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The Sourdough Wars (Rebecca Schwartz Mystery #2) (The Rebecca Schwartz Series)
julie Smith
Genre: World Literature | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
The second book in Edgar-winning author Julie Smith’s Rebecca Schwartz series.
To you, it’s just a frozen lump of dough; but to some, it’s life and death…
Especially to handsome Peter Martinelli, who wants to auction off the fabled sourdough starter from his family’s famous bakery. But who’d buy a frozen hunk of flour and water? Only, it turns out, every bakery in San Francisco, a national food conglomerate, and an upstart ringer with a mysterious backer.
Someone would even kill for it. And does.
Enter lawyer sleuth Rebecca Schwartz, whose client is her own partner, glamorous Chris Nicholson, Martinelli’s main squeeze before the ill-starred auction.
Rebecca noshes her way through the case in hilariously unorthodox style, tasting some great bread along the way, but also uncovering so many ancient jealousies, long-simmering feuds, and seething resentments that she barely escapes death by doughball.
NOTE: THIS STORY IS COMPLETELY REALITY-BASED! A SAN FRANCISCO BAKERY MADE PAGE ONE NEWS BY FREEZING THEIR STARTER, ONLY WITHOUT THE BLOODSHED.
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Tourist Trap (Rebecca Schwartz #3) (A Rebecca Schwartz Mystery) (The Rebecca Schwartz Series)
Julie Smith
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Women’s Fiction | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
The third book in Edgar-winner Julie Smith’s Rebecca Schwartz series.
So what’s a nice Jewish girl doing at an Easter sunrise service?
Lawyer Rebecca Schwartz would pick the one with the body nailed to the landmark cross! Coincidence? Not so much. She’s there because her boy friend’s covering the service for the San Francisco Chronicle. The body’s there because someone’s making a statement he doesn’t want the press to miss.
Next: mass shellfish poisoning at Pier 39. A very different kind of serial killer is operating here, one who seems to have a grudge against the whole city.
And this is a very different kind of serial killer tale, a funny one. (If your don’t count the murders, or course.) Rebecca’s warm and witty, never takes herself too seriously, and on one occasion offers closing testimony with green hair. A highly embarrassing moment, but the bright chartreuse is all in the service of making her case.
No way does she believe her client would nail somebody, especially to a cross. And the things she has to do to prove it are hilarious and often unorthodox, yet always professional. Sometimes hyper-professional, the average lawyer simply can’t be bothered spraying herself with Thunderbird to fit in with her witnesses!
A wild ride through Baghdad by the Bay…and a great courtroom drama.
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Dead In The Water (Rebecca Schwartz Mystery #4) (The Rebecca Schwartz Series)
Julie Smith
Genre: Romance | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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This is the fourth book in Edgar-winner Julie Smith’s Rebecca Schwartz series.
What’s the etiquette when your hostess is arrested for murder?
San Francisco lawyer Rebecca Schwartz has occasion to wonder when she and her weekend hostess, Marty Whitehead, find a body floating in the 30-foot kelp tower at the Monterey Aquarium, and Marty’s promptly dragged off to the slammer.
Rebecca quickly grasps the Emily Post solution, sign on as Marty’s lawyer, try to keep her client’s two young kids out of the deep end, and somehow avoid drowning in the sea of lies gushing from Marty’s mouth, and everyone else’s. There’s a lot of intrigue among the aquarium’s oceangoing primates, as well as rumors of a pearl beyond price.
For Rebecca, the sea and all its animals have always held huge attraction, but now her attention turns to a particularly fine specimen of homo sapiens, hot marine biologist Julio Soto. As her investigation picks up speed, she finds she better act fast to keep Julio from sleeping with the fishes he collects. Because if she doesn’t, he could be next in line for the shark tank, along with Rebecca herself.
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Other People’s Skeletons (Rebecca Schwartz Mystery #5) (The Rebecca Schwartz Series)
Julie Smith
Genre: World Literature | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Other People’s Skeletons is the fifth Rebecca Schwartz mystery by Edgar-winning author Julie Smith.
What she’s about to learn will rock her world!
Rebecca Schwartz, “Jewish feminist lawyer,” as she’s fond of saying, thought she knew her best friend, and her boy friend. Not to mention her family. But everything’s about to change.
Secrets spill out of these pages like hornets out of a nest, each with its own distinct sting, as author Smith weaves a thrill-packed and complicated mystery that’s as much about how little we know about our nearest and dearest as it is about whodunit.
Rebecca’s shocked when Chris Nicholson, her glamorous law partner, is arrested for murder, but not nearly so shocked as when she discovers Chris can’t come up with an alibi. What she was doing, Chris says, involves a secret so damaging she’d be drummed out of San Francisco legal circles if anyone knew. All she’ll say is what her secret isn’t, crime, drugs, sex, alcohol, addiction, illness (mental or otherwise), or an eating disorder. So what’s left? Sure enough, when Rebecca uncovers it, her world tilts on its axis, and continues to list, ever more dangerously, as the story picks up speed and this formerly rational lawyer finds her worldview threatened by things she never knew existed. At least not in her circle! And Chris is far from the only one with a skeleton in her closet.
The murdered man, Jason McKendrick, was a much-loved columnist, a carefree bachelor with a million glamorous women, who also happened to have a very special friend who slept on a filthy mattress in his apartment. As Rebecca and Chris peel back the layers of Jason’s complicated world, they find he was leading not just a double life, but maybe many more. Only one person knows what made him tick. But can she stay alive long enough to tell his story?
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