- Hardcover: 252 pages
- Publisher: Berkley Pub Group (Aug 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0425157849
- ISBN-13: 978-0425157848
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm
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Cass, the heroine of Carolyn Wheat's Troubled Waters, is a successful, hard- drinking defence lawyer. She's come a long way from 1969 when she was an idealistic teenager involved in organising migrant farm workers: "...her face washed with sweat and tears, her eyes glowing in equal parts passion for social justice and lust for Wes Tannock". Wes, Tark and Rap were a group of slightly older radical students she met through her brother Ron. Once idealists, they have been pressed through the reality mill like Cass: one is an ambitious politician, another is a corrupt spin doctor and the third a ruthless dope dealer.
Their slide into cynicism begins in 1969 when fate steals Ron's draft deferment and leaves him crippled in Vietnam. Then in the early 80s the same group is involved in smuggling Latin American refugees to Canada. Both times, idealism leads to death as one friend is accused of treachery and the murder of a government agent. One of their friends has betrayed them all along, and Cass has to find out which one by confronting her memories and thus her own past failures. Wheat delivers a virtuoso performance in her management of time, constantly moving around Cass's memories as the reader searches to find the truth. Wheat is also precise about the radical milieu and moving ideals she celebrates as well as criticises. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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From the author of SWORN TO DEFEND and DEAD MAN'S THOUGHTS, a new crime novel featuring Brooklyn lawyer Cass Jameson, who faces the most difficult case of her career when she is called upon to defend her brother accused of murdering a federal agent.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
An excellent, tightly plotted mystery
28 May 1998
Format:Paperback
I eagerly await each of Carolyn Wheat's mysteries. Troubled Waters is an excellent, well plotted mystery. The character development is strong and the story line demands the reader's full attention.
I have read each of her previous Cass Jameson mysteries and thoroughly enjoyed each of them. This one reaches new heights of excellence with its amazingly plotted and executed story line.
My one suggestion to the author is that she utilize a medical advisor to check medical procedures and equipment. One can not speak while on a respirator and when visiting a patient in ICU with a head injury there would be no need to gown. Other than those minor errors, I thought this book was her best yet. I eagerly await the next offering in this wonderful series.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
WONDERFUL book, part of a PHENOMENAL series
23 Aug 1998
Format:Hardcover
Although I have read -- and enjoyed -- virtually every book in every series by the most famous female mystery writers, Carolyn Wheat unequivocally remains my favorite.
This series is about a Legal Aid attorney named Cass Jameson. As such, it introduces fascinating glimpses into seldom-seen areas of the legal system -- along with providing excellent mysteries. This is one series I buy in hardcover as soon as each book is published.
The books are all very well-written, fast-moving, and entertaining. I cannot sufficiently recommend them. IMHO, this is the best mystery series available.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Cass tackles the most personal case of her legal career.
29 Aug 1997
Format:Hardcover
"Troubled Waters" is one of the the best mysteries I've read this year. Wheat's compelling narrative shifts in time between the late '60s, early '80s and mid-'90s, charting the lives of a disparate group of idealistic radicals from youth to adulthood, and makes canny use of their collective 30-odd-year-old emotional baggage.
At first, the time shifts drove impatient me crazy, but it wasn't long before I was thumbing back every few chapters for clues. Believe me, it doesn't help!
Wheat's five previous books in the Cass Jameson series foreshadow so many events here, I sense that this book has been percolating in her head all along. Many mystery writers don't bother to give their characters a past that is relevant in future plots. (I haven't read her books in chronological order, which perhaps frees me from reader expectations.)
I was blown away by its climactic ending, and I'm not easily fooled! (Certain people refuse to sit next to me in movies!) Kudos to Carolyn Wheat for her best writing yet! I'm chomping at the bit for her next book but, unfortunately for us readers, her books are published years apart.
P.S. I advise beginning this book in the morning. I stayed up until 4 a.m. last night to finish the last chapters.
At first, the time shifts drove impatient me crazy, but it wasn't long before I was thumbing back every few chapters for clues. Believe me, it doesn't help!
Wheat's five previous books in the Cass Jameson series foreshadow so many events here, I sense that this book has been percolating in her head all along. Many mystery writers don't bother to give their characters a past that is relevant in future plots. (I haven't read her books in chronological order, which perhaps frees me from reader expectations.)
I was blown away by its climactic ending, and I'm not easily fooled! (Certain people refuse to sit next to me in movies!) Kudos to Carolyn Wheat for her best writing yet! I'm chomping at the bit for her next book but, unfortunately for us readers, her books are published years apart.
P.S. I advise beginning this book in the morning. I stayed up until 4 a.m. last night to finish the last chapters.
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