{"id":1134,"date":"2018-11-05T19:51:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T19:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?page_id=1134"},"modified":"2021-02-12T12:11:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T17:11:27","slug":"female-attorneys-as-characters-in-novels-authors-names-beginning-with-m","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/female-attorneys-as-characters-in-novels-authors-names-beginning-with-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Attorneys As Characters In Novels (Authors’ Names Beginning With M)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MacDougal, Bonnie,\u00a0Angle of impact<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Ballantine Books, 1999). Woman lawyer investigates plane crash.<\/span><\/p>\n

MacDougal, Bonnie,\u00a0Out of Order<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Ballantine Books, 1999). Features attorney Campbell Alexander.<\/span><\/p>\n

Madison, Susan, The Color of Hope (NY: St. Martin\u2019s Press, 2000).<\/span><\/p>\n

Malek, Doreen Owens,\u00a0Above the Law<\/u>\u00a0(1994). Female attorney investigates corruption in the DA’s office; falls in love with the DA.<\/span><\/p>\n

Malek, Doreen Owens,\u00a0Arrow in the snow<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Silhouette Books, 1992)(Silhouette desire; 747). Florida attorney assists Seminole Indians with land dispute. Malek is an attorney who turned to romance writing in the 1980s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Malek, Doreen Owens,\u00a0Trial by fire<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Leisure Books, 1983).<\/span><\/p>\n

Marbut, Ann,\u00a0A Bill of Particulars<\/u>\u00a0(NY: D. McKay, 1955). A female attorney goes endures a bad love affair, finally finds happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Margolin, Phillip,\u00a0After dark<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Bantam Books, 1996). Tracy Cavanaugh goes into partnership with an experienced lawyer just in time to defend a prosecutor charged with murdering her husband.<\/span><\/p>\n

Margolin, Phillip,\u00a0Gone, but not forgotten<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Bantam Books, 1994). Betzy Tannenbaum, Portland, Oregon defense attorney, investigates serial murders. Margolin is a criminal defense attorney in Portland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Margolin, Philip,\u00a0Ties That Bind<\/u>\u00a0(Harper Collins, 2003). Female lawyer gets involved in a high profile murder case.<\/span><\/p>\n

Margolin, Phillip,\u00a0Wild Justice<\/u>\u00a0(NY: HarperCollins, 2000).<\/span><\/p>\n

Marks, J. H.,\u00a0Conspiracy theory<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Signet Books, 1997). Novelization of the film (Movie script by Brian Helgeland). A woman attorney and a cab driver investigate murder.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maron, Margaret<\/a>,\u00a0Bootlegger’s daughter<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Warner Books, 1992). Features Deborah Knott, North Carolina lawyer and judge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maron, Margaret,\u00a0High Country Fall<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Warner Books, 2004). A Deborah Knott mystery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maron, Margaret,\u00a0Home fires<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Mysterious Press, 1998). Features Judge Deborah Knott.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maron, Margaret,\u00a0Killer market<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Mysterious Press, 1997). Features Judge Deborah Knott.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maron, Margaret,\u00a0Rituals of the Season<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Warner Books, 2005). Judge Deborah Knott, finally close to marrying her sweetheart Dwight Bryant, gets mixed up in the murder of ADA Tracy Johnson.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maron, Margaret,\u00a0Shooting at loons<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Warner, 1995). Features Judge Deborah Knott.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maron, Margaret,\u00a0Slow Dollar<\/u>, (NY: Warner Books, 2003). A Deborah Knott mystery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maron, Margaret,\u00a0Storm Track<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Warner Books, 2001). A Deborah Knott mystery. Winner of an Agatha award (2000).<\/span><\/p>\n

Maron, Margaret,\u00a0Southern discomfort<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Warner Books, 1994). Features Judge Deborah Knott.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maron, Margaret,\u00a0Uncommon Clay<\/u>, (NY: Warner Books, 2002). A\u00a0 Judge Deborah Knott mystery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maron, Margaret,\u00a0Up jumps the devil<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Warner, 1997). Features Judge Deborah Knott.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marson, Bonnie,\u00a0Sleeping With Schuber<\/u>t (NY: Random House, 2004). Franz Schubert’s spirit takes up residence in a female lawyer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Martini, Steve,\u00a0The Attorney<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Putnam, 2000).<\/span><\/p>\n

Martini, Steve,\u00a0Critical mass<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Putnam, 1998). Former LA public defender Joss Cole opens a solo practice in Puget Sound, hoping for a quieter life, gets involved in espionage and murder.<\/span><\/p>\n

Martini, Steve,\u00a0The judge<\/u>\u00a0(London: Headline Feature, 1995).<\/span><\/p>\n

Martini, Steve,\u00a0The list<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Putnam, 1997).<\/span><\/p>\n

Massey, Sujata,The Widows of Malabar Hill<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Random House\/Soho Crime, 2018).<\/span> Features Perveen Mistry, the only female lawyer in 1920s Bombay.<\/p>\n

Massey, Sujata, The Satarpur Moonstone (NY: Random House\/Soho Crime, 2019). The second Perveen Mistry mystery.<\/p>\n

Matera, Lia<\/a>,\u00a0Designer crimes: A Laura DiPalma mystery<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Pocket Star Books, 1995).<\/span><\/p>\n

Matera, Lia,\u00a0Face value: A Laura DiPalma mystery<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994).<\/span><\/p>\n

Matera, Lia,\u00a0The good fight: A Laura DiPalma mystery<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Ballantine Books, 1990).<\/span><\/p>\n

Matera, Lia,\u00a0A hard bargain<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992). Features Laura DiPalma.<\/span><\/p>\n

Matera, Lia,\u00a0Havana twist<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998). Features Willa Jansson.<\/span><\/p>\n

Matera, Lia,\u00a0Last chants: A Willa Jansson mystery<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Pocket Books, 1997).<\/span><\/p>\n

Matera, Lia,\u00a0Prior convictions<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Simon & Schuster, 1991). Features Willa Jansson.<\/span><\/p>\n

Matera, Lia,\u00a0A radical departure<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Simon & Schuster, 1988).<\/span><\/p>\n

Matera, Lia,\u00a0The smart money<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Ballantine Books, 1988). Features Laura DiPalma.<\/span><\/p>\n

Matera, Lia,\u00a0Star witness<\/u>\u00a0(NY: PocketStar Books, 1997). Features Willa Jansson defending a man claiming to have been abducted by aliens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Matera, Lia,\u00a0Where lawyers fear to tread<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Ballantine Books, 1991). Features Willa Jansson.<\/span><\/p>\n

Matturro, Claire,\u00a0SkinnyDipping<\/u>\u00a0(HarperCollins, 2005). Attorney Lilly Cleary investigates the death of her physician. First in a series. Matturro is a former appellate attorney and law professor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Matturro, Claire,\u00a0Wildcat Wine<\/u>\u00a0(HarperCollins, 2005). Lilly Cleary returns in another legal mystery.<\/span><\/p>\n

McCann, Timothy B.,\u00a0Forever<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Kensington Books, 2001). Lawyer Betty Robinson gets married.<\/span><\/p>\n

McCann, Timothy B.,\u00a0Until<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Avon, 1999). Features Betty Robinson, a Southern lawyer, and her life and loves.<\/span><\/p>\n

McCarthy, Susanne,\u00a0Trial by love<\/u>\u00a0(1989). Romance fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n

McCrary, Crystal,\u00a0Homecourt advantage: A novel<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Avon Books, 1998). African American female lawyer.<\/span><\/p>\n

McCrumb, Sharyn,\u00a0The PMS Outlaws<\/u>\u00a0(2000). Some of McCrumb’s Elizabeth MacPherson novels, including this one, include female lawyer A. P. Hill, a partner of Elizabeth’s brother Bill’s. In this novel, Hill and another female attorney, Patricia Purdue, take center stage, when Purdue initiates a weird method of illegal but effective revenge against obnoxious males. Raises ethical as well as legal questions, and is much darker than McCrumb’s other mysteries featuring the MacPherson clan.<\/span><\/p>\n

McDougal, Bonnie,\u00a0Out of Order<\/u>\u00a0(1999). Philadelphia lawyer Campbell Smith investigates murder.<\/span><\/p>\n

McGuire, Christine,\u00a0Until death do us part<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Pocket Star Books, 1997). California DA Kathryn Mackay investigates murder.<\/span><\/p>\n

McGuire, Christine,\u00a0Until justice is done<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Pocket Star Books, 1994). Features lawyer Kathryn MacKay.<\/span><\/p>\n

McGuire, Christine,\u00a0Until Proven Guilty<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Pocket Star Books, 1993).<\/span><\/p>\n

McGuire, Christine,\u00a0Until the Bough Breaks<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Pocket Star Books, 1998).<\/span><\/p>\n

McGuire,\u00a0 Christine,\u00a0Until We Meet Again<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Pocket Star Books, 1999).<\/span><\/p>\n

McKemmish, Jan,\u00a0Only lawyers dancing<\/u>\u00a0(Pittsburgh, Cleis Press, 1992).<\/span><\/p>\n

McKinney, Meagan,\u00a0A man to slay dragons<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Kensington Books, 1996). New Orleans-born attorney returns to investigate the death of her sister, the victim of a serial killer. Romance fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n

McReynolds, Glenna,\u00a0Avenging angel<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Bantam Books, 1993)(Dangerous men). Romantic suspense.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meltzer, Brad,\u00a0Dead Even<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Warner, 1999). Another book about a new female ADA.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meredith, D. R.,\u00a0Murder by Deception<\/u>\u00a0().<\/span><\/p>\n

Meredith, D. R.,\u00a0Murder By Impulse<\/u>\u00a0(). Features John Lloyd Branson and Lydia Fairchild investigating the supposed accidental death of a millionaire’s wife.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meredith, D. R.,\u00a0Murder by Masquerade<\/u>\u00a0(1994). Lydia Fairchild decides to investigate serial killings on her own, but needs John Lloyd Branson’s help.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meredith, D. R.,\u00a0Murder by sacrilege<\/u>\u00a0(1993). Lydia Fairchild, law student and assistant to John Lloyd Branson, famous Texas criminal lawyer, helps investigate the death of a preacher’s wife.<\/span><\/p>\n

Merritt, Jackie,\u00a0Mustang Valley<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Silhouette Books, 1991)(Silhouette desire; 664). Reno attorney finds love; romance fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael, Judith,\u00a0Sleeping beauty: A novel<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Poseidon Press, 1991). Colorado woman attorney.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michaels, Leigh,\u00a0The Lake effect<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Harlequin Books, 1993)(Harlequin romance; 3275). Minnesota lawyer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Romance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michaels, Leigh,\u00a0Tempting a tycoon<\/u>\u00a0(Richmond: Mills & Boon, 1999)(Mills & Boon Romance; H5085).<\/span><\/p>\n

Mickelbury, Penny<\/a>,\u00a0One must wait<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998). Louisiana-born, DC-based African-American defense attorney Carole Ann Gibson investigates murder and environmental crimes back home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mickelbury, Penny,\u00a0Paradise Interrupted<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Simon & Schuster, 2001). Carole Ann leaves law practice for investigation in this island thriller.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mickelbury, Penny,\u00a0The Step Between<\/u>\u00a0(2000). A Carole Ann Gibson mystery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mickelbury, Penny,\u00a0Where to Choose<\/u>\u00a0(1999). A Carole Ann Gibson mystery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Miller, Martha,\u00a0Nine Nights on the Windy Tree: A Mystery<\/u>\u00a0(Norwich, VT: New Victoria Publishers, 2000). Features Bertha, a black attorney, investigating a crime that puts her live in danger.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mitchard, Jacqueline,\u00a0The most wanted<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Viking, 1998). Texas lawyer. Mitchard is the acclaimed author of\u00a0The deep part of the ocean<\/u>\u00a0(1997).<\/p>\n

Mittman, Stephanie,\u00a0The courtship<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Five Star, 1998). Romance fiction about a nineteenth century female lawyer, Charlotte Whittier, her husband and her lover.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mittermeyer, Helen,\u00a0Divinity Brown<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Bantam Books, 1996).<\/span><\/p>\n

Monroe, Mary Alice,\u00a0The Book Club<\/u>\u00a0(Mira Books, 1999). Features attorney Annie Blake.<\/span><\/p>\n

Montgomery, Selena, Reckless (Avon, 2008). Kell is an attorney at a white shoe law firm in Atlanta. She agrees to defend the head of the orphanage where she grew up, and finds romance with the sheriff who believes her client is guilty.\u00a0 Selena Montgomery is the pen name of former Georgia gubenatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.<\/em><\/p>\n

Montgomery, Selena, While Justice Sleeps: A Novel (2021). Due in May, 2021.<\/p>\n

Moran, James Patrick,\u00a0Public garden<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Crown, 1994). Boston attorney.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mortimer, John,\u00a0Rumpole and the Golden Thread<\/u>; other Rumpole books. Feature various female attorneys including Phyllida Erskine-Brown.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mosiman, Billie Sue,\u00a0Stiletto<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Berkley Books, 1996)(Berkley suspense). Texas attorney investigates crimes against young people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Munson, Douglas Anne,\u00a0El Ni\u00f1o<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Viking, 1990). Published in paperback as\u00a0Hostile witness<\/u>\u00a0(1992).<\/span><\/p>\n

Murphy, Margaret,\u00a0Weaving Shadows<\/u>\u00a0(2004). Features attorney Clara Pascal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Myers, Helen R.,\u00a0The Law is No Lady<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Silhouette, 1999).<\/span><\/p>\n

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