Shades of Justice: A Novel **AWARD FINALIST**

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 1st. Ed. Near fine in dust jacket. A SPOTTED OWL AWARD NOMINEE. "Huebner's latest novel rests on a solid foundation of legal expertise not surprising from the author of the Edgar-nominated Judgment by Fire...We first meet Dr. Will Hatton, a psychiatrist labeled by Newsweek as "a leading skeptic of post-traumatic stress disorder and repressed memory claims," as he is testifying (very successfully) for the prosecution in a Dallas murder case. Pausing only to blackmail the district attorney into not asking for the death penalty, Dr. Hatton whizzes back to his native Seattle, where a former childhood friend, Laura Arcand, a famous painter, has apparently murdered her husband and tried to kill herself. Will is so closely connected to Laura (he had a brief affair with her in New York, and his mentor and virtual father, ace lawyer Ed Hauser, has been the lover of Laura's mother for years) that any personal involvement in her defense would seem impossible. To his credit, Huebner raises these objections (through a sharp but undersketched young lawyer named Mary Slattery) then slips Will through a fictional loophole and makes him an important part of the defense team anyway..." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.