The vendetta defense

Description:

Lawyer Judy Carrier becomes embroiled in a fifty-year-old blood feud and a romance that is dangerously close to her case.Lawyer Judy Carrier takes the case of her career to defend Anthony Lucia, fondly known as "Pigeon Tony," who is arrested for the murder of his lifelong enemy Angelo Coluzzi. When her client freely admits he killed Coluzzi because of a vendetta, Judy's troubles really begin. The Coluzzi family wants revenge. Then there's Pigeon Tony's hunky grandson, who makes Judy think about everything but the law.

subjects: Fiction,  Trials (Murder),  Vendetta,  Women lawyers,  Rosato & Associates (Imaginary organization),  Homing pigeons,  Italian Americans,  Legal stories,  Mystery,  Women lawyers, fiction,  Philadelphia (pa.), fiction,  Fiction, legal,  Fiction, thrillers, general,  Italian americans, fiction,  Trials (Homicide),  Pigeons,  Revenge,  Large type books

Places: Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia (Pa.),  Philadelphia