Simple Case

by V.S. Kemanis

Plunge into a day in the life of rookie prosecutor Dana Hargrove, central character in the legal mystery novels "Thursday’s List" and "Homicide Chart." This is the story that introduced her to the world!

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First published July 4, 2014

About the author

Award-winning author V.S. Kemanis has a professional background in the law and the arts. As a lawyer, she worked many years as a litigator in New York’s criminal justice system and as a supervising editor of decisions for the busiest appellate court in the country. An accomplished dancer of ballet and contemporary styles, Kemanis has performed, choreographed, and taught dance in California, Colorado, and New York.

Short fiction by Ms. Kemanis has been published in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies including Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, The Crooked Road Volume 3, The Best Laid Plans, Me Too Short Stories, and Autumn Noir, among others. Her book, Your Pick: Selected Stories, won the Eric Hoffer Award for best story collection and was a Montaigne Medal Finalist. Other award-winning stories are published in four volumes, Dust of the Universe, Everyone But Us, Malocclusion, and Love and Crime. Legal thrillers Thursday’s List, Homicide Chart, Forsaken Oath, Deep Zero, Seven Shadows, and Power Blind feature prosecutor Dana Hargrove who, like the author, juggles the competing demands of family with a high-powered professional career in the law.

Ms. Kemanis is a member of Mystery Writers of America.