Books by William Jeremiah Coughlin and Complete Book Reviews
William Jeremiah Coughlin, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (353p) ISBN 978-0-06-017701-0
Coughlin ( Shadow of a Doubt ) delivers another thoughtful, brisk-paced and fully satisfying legal mystery. Though his drinking caused his near-disbarment, former hot-shot Detroit attorney Charlie Sloan, now practicing from Pickeral Point, a small...
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William Jeremiah Coughlin, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-92745-5
An attorney whose drinking has cost him his practice and his family sobers up just in time to defend a murderer in Coughlin's lucid, emotionally demanding mystery/thriller, which was a Literary Guild selection and spent a week on PW 's bestseller...
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William Jeremiah Coughlin, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (407p) ISBN 978-0-312-95164-1
Posthumously published, this improbable legal thriller concerns the controversial inheritance left by a multi-millionaire in a small, eccentric Midwestern town. (Jan.)
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William Jeremiah Coughlin, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (396p) ISBN 978-0-453-00532-6
After giving up a promising, though demanding route to a political career, cool, ambitious Kathleen Talbotthe ""Ice Queen'' of the public prosecutor's officeaccepts a judgeship in its place. Her powerful father is so infuriated by her choice that he
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William Jeremiah Coughlin, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-312-05961-3
Seldom does mystery/thriller fiction ring as true as in this lucid, emotionally demanding book from federal judge Coughlin ( Her Honor ). Attorney Charley Sloan has lost his lucrative Detroit practice, three wives and a considerable fortune--all to...
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William Jeremiah Coughlin, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-312-08818-7
Posthumously published, this legal thriller lacks the authority of Coughlin's previous books, in particular his riveting Shadow of a Doubt . Here 32-year-old Jake Martin, an associate lawyer hoping for a partnership in his prestigious Detroit law...
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William Jeremiah Coughlin, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-11534-0
A corporate takeover leads to a moral dilemma in this archly written but truncated posthumous novel from Coughlin (In the Presence of Enemies). The dilemma belongs to Judge Paul Murray, who unwittingly has received his recently acquired position on...
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William Jeremiah Coughlin, Author Thomas Dunne Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-15558-2
Coughlin (The Heart of Justice) left several unfinished manuscripts when he died.This one, finished and polished by his widow, Ruth Coughlin, is another Detroit-set thriller that pulls defense lawyer Charley Sloan into big-time action. A recovering...
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William Jeremiah Coughlin, Author, Walter Sorrells, Author, Walter Sorrells, Joint Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-28066-6
Sorrells (Cry for Justice) takes one of the more endearing fictional lawyers from the 1980s and early 1990s, the late Coughlin's Charley Sloan, and puts him back in court with the same clever, bombastic style that Coughlin perfected in a string...
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