Given Springfield's high rate of COVID-19 cases over the summer, Allen declined to host any book signings. Louis Post-Dispatch Columnist Tony Messenger, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the topic, at the Springfield Public Library on Dec. See Nancy Allen talk about her book at the Springfield Public LibraryĪllen added she will be hosting a conversation with St. "We talk about the abuses being subjected by the debtors' prisons that are all over our country. Most people don't know that this is going on, and we were able to shine a light on it, and expose that problem in our justice system," Allen said. That case banned the use of debtors prisons in Missouri - ruling that judges cannot threaten defendants with more jail time over an inability to pay jail fines.Īllen said "The Jailhouse Lawyer" centers around poor defendants who face this very issue. More: Federal prosecutors say former Springfield 'Mystery Santa' illegally funneled Russian money to Trump campaign While set in Alabama, Allen said the genesis of the novel came from a 2019 Missouri state Supreme Court ruling. "The Jailhouse Lawyer" tells the story of a public defender who "tries to do her job and ends up in jail." "The opportunity to work with the most successful writer in the world, and that title belongs to James Patterson alone, has been an enormous privilege, but also an education."
And not only that, I'm being paid for it," Allen said. English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks is published by Allen Lane (20). And it is the kind of experience that money can't buy. By the end of the book, he’s the image of his grandfather, Sisyphus with a smile on his face. "He has taught me more than I can even tell you. No tradition identifies James the son of Alphaeus (see Mark 3:18) as the author. James the son of Zebedee died in AD 44, too early to have been the author. That novel was the first in her "Code of the Hills" series, which is a legal thriller and mystery set in the Missouri Ozarks.Īllen calls herself a "self-taught" writer but credits much of what she has learned to her collaborations with Patterson. A number of New Testament personalities were named James, but only three are candidates for the authorship of this book.
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