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Scottoline has earned the respect of the authors who dominate legal lit. "If I could be a partner in one of the fictional law firms that she has created, I'd sign up in a heartbeat," says star crime writer Linda Fairstein admiringly. Scottoline quibbles with the popular name for her craft. "I don't think I'm writing legal thrillers at all, and honestly, I hate the term," she says. "I'm writing stories about strong, funny, resourceful women who get themselves in and out of trouble by sheer dint of will and excessive amounts of heart, and these...
Ever since John Grisham left the courtroom for the best-seller list, publishers have been paying large sums for fictionalized legal and criminal expertise. January alone saw high-profile books from Linda Fairstein, a 25-year veteran prosecutor in Manhattan's sex-crimes unit, as well as Bill Bonanno, an ex-mobster, and Joe Pistone, a Mafia-infiltrating ex-FBI agent. But Rimington, 69, is the biggest name in law enforcement yet to give fiction a go. She began working for MI5 in 1965, when, as the wife of a British diplomat in New Delhi, she was hired...
Police and prosecutors who worked the case, including Linda Fairstein, former chief of the district attorney's sex-crimes unit, concede that the DNA evidence proves Reyes raped the jogger, whose identity is still being shielded, though she will reveal it when she publishes a book about her experience next year. But Fairstein continues to insist that the new evidence "does not exonerate the other five, who by their own admissions participated in her attack by holding her down and striking her to the ground." Reyes, now 31, said he was moved to admit his guilt after witnessing the hard...
...traditional women's magazine recipe of celebrities, health, beauty and fashion, seasons it with travel and investment tips and ages it 20 years. Recent issues have investigated an upward spiral in age-discrimination suits, explored Vietnam War memories from the perspective of a veteran's wife and profiled Linda Fairstein, 54, a New York City sex-crime prosecutor who writes mystery novels...
RETIRING. LINDA FAIRSTEIN, 54, chief prosecutor of New York City's sex-crimes unit who successfully pushed national and local legislation on behalf of rape victims; in New York City. Among her best-known cases was the conviction of preppie Robert Chambers in the 1986 manslaughter of teen Jennifer Levin...