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One of the premises of BLONDES HAVE MORE FELONS strains credulity and is apparently only included to provide comic relief. Attorney December Vaughan has moved from Ohio to Florida. Instead of entrusting her china and furniture to a licensed, bonded moving company (something I think most sane people would do), she hires a fly-by-night company with a U-Haul and a driver given to going on benders. Her first client is Charlie Deaver, whose wife died as a result of being given faulty insulin. December agrees to take the case, a decision which will put her up against a huge drug company. Another firm, very large and with unlimited resources, offers to take on the case. It's a trifle hard to believe that the client doesn't jump at the chance to be represented by a prestigious firm with access to all sorts of expert witnesses. December's staff consists of her old friend and former beauty queen, Max, and Mr Ellison, probably the most politically incorrect character since 1950. He keeps calling December "chickie" and "girlie," terms which set her feminist hackles on edge. December's first appearance in court is humiliating. She is defending Bear, a man accused of a minor offense -- taking a lamp without paying. December begins to ramble and alludes to repression and the Founding Fathers, to the amusement and consternation of the judge. She is saved when the prosecutor intervenes to announce that the case is being dropped because the complaining clerk came down with an infection in one of her piercings. The plot, while serviceable, is really a vehicle for the characters. The book is worth reading alone for the sartorially challenged Mr Ellison. Another stand-out is December's new neighbor, Emily, a June Cleaver mother who is also a poker shark. December herself is a tiger when prosecuting her client's case against the drug company and standing up to Addison Langley, a shark attorney. She is, however, somewhat less grounded in her personal life.
Reviewed by Mary Elizabeth Devine, June 2006
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