Public Comment - Couverture souple

Jacobs, S. L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 195974836X ISBN 13 : 9781959748366

Editeur : Tucker DS Press, 2026

Synopsis

Politics and Murder: Par for the Course

Public Comment holds up a satiric small-town mirror to governance as a really good place to hide murderous secrets. Wendell Williams, a stunted and narcissistic groundskeeper at a local golf course, contemplates and commits a couple of murders. He has his reasons (tremendous reasons), and the golf course proves convenient for his purposes. To keep his secrets buried, he convinces half the townspeople that he is a visionary leader and that any development of the golf course property is not in the interests of the town. But Debra Wolfson, a plump, middle-aged family-law mediator and dedicated selectwoman with a fondness for oatmeal raisin cookies, finds herself on a collision course with the mendacious Wendell. While everyone is losing their heads over the turmoil that Wendell purposefully stokes, Debra is determined to keep hers and expose Wendell as a charlatan who has no business getting elected to public office.

This book was a finalist in the Killer Nashville awards and winner of the Best First Line contest sponsored by New York's WriteByNight.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

S. L. Jacobs is a product of Southern California. She graduated from UCLA in 1975 (BA, English literature, dean’s list, service honors) and from Southwestern University School of Law in 1979 (JD, moot court honors, service honors). She moved to Woodbridge, Connecticut, in 1985 and was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1986.

Her legal career has been varied. Over the span of more than forty years, she has practiced and litigated all aspects of commercial litigation, environmental law, land use and zoning, and family law. For the past fifteen years of her practice, she devoted herself exclusively to family mediation and collaborative law. She retired from the practice of law in 2021.

Over the course of nearly four decades, she has been an active participant in the Town of Woodbridge. She has been elected or appointed to multiple municipal boards, commissions, and committees and has twice been a delegate to the state political convention. Currently, she is chair of the board of finance. All of these elected and appointed positions are on a volunteer basis, and mostly all are subject to the legal and actual requirement of public comment.

She is a recent recipient of the Living Treasure Award, conferred by the Town of Woodbridge in recognition of a lifetime of volunteer service to the community. She is also a recent recipient of the Shem Tov Award, conferred by her synagogue in recognition of decades of volunteer service to the congregation.

She is active in community theater as a performer, singer, writer, and director. A frequent traveler, she spent a year in Paris (1995-96) and a year in Oxford, UK (2019).

S. L. Jacobs is a product of Southern California. She graduated from UCLA in 1975 (BA, English literature, dean’s list, service honors) and from Southwestern University School of Law in 1979 (JD, moot court honors, service honors). She moved to Woodbridge, Connecticut, in 1985 and was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1986.

Her legal career has been varied. Over the span of more than forty years, she has practiced and litigated all aspects of commercial litigation, environmental law, land use and zoning, and family law. For the past fifteen years of her practice, she devoted herself exclusively to family mediation and collaborative law. She retired from the practice of law in 2021.

Over the course of nearly four decades, she has been an active participant in the Town of Woodbridge. She has been elected or appointed to multiple municipal boards, commissions, and committees and has twice been a delegate to the state political convention. Currently, she is chair of the board of finance. All of these elected and appointed positions are on a volunteer basis, and mostly all are subject to the legal and actual requirement of public comment.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tucker DS Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 195974836X
• ISBN 13: 9781959748366
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236
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