Praise for No Defense:
“Wallace avoids any Grisham-come-lately clichés in this interesting novel of southern justice... This page-turner of a novel is refreshing in it’s uncommon perspective, as opposed to the usual legal novel that focuses on lawyers.”
Booklist
“Rangeley Wallace has written a taut, compelling Southern drama that is cut from the same cloth as Harper Lee and the early William Faulkner.”
Winston Groom,
author of Forrest Gump
“A riveting courtroom drama…Another fine story in the Southern literary tradition”
Library Journal
Rangeley Wallace moved from the South toWashington, D.C. where she is an author and a lawyer. Her previous novel No Defense (St. Martin’s Press) received rave reviews.
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Things Are Going to Slide
“Rangeley Wallace is a hard, fresh wind from the south, with a voice full of particularity and a born sense of story.”
Anne River Siddons
Marilee Carson Cooper thought she was doing well. She has landed her dream job, at the law clinic at Alabama Southern University in her hometown of Carsonville where her husband coaces the swim team. With her parents and grandparents living within shouting distance, it seeems they’ve found the perfect place to raise their young children.
Then things begin to slide. To Marilee’s shock and embarrassment, she is passed over for a position as Chair of Clinical Law. Is she being eased out? Is she on slippery ground because she hasn’t published in the law reviews?
Doubly irritating, the prestigious post went to a native son, Dwight Hurley, to woo him home to Carsonville from the big city. He lacks her expertise and disdains her views on how the clinic should be managed. Her otherwise reliable mother is no help. Nursing a private grief, she mysteriously leaves town.
The troubled clients of the legal clinic are presenting Marilee and her student lawyers with grave issues. One of them – an unwed teen mom – is accused of child abuse, while another client’s DNA tests cast doubt on the parentage of her child. Fortunately, Marilee narrowly averts allowing her rivalry with Dwight to interfere with their best interests.
Marilee thought she understood the dynamics of Carsonville Alabama, but even in small, transparent towns, unseen forces are at work that she only now begins to appreciate.
Things Are Going To Slide is a comic novel with joyous Southern flare.
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