About Four Women:
Corruption, greed and politics, mix with four amazing women and their alcoholic lawyer to create a fast-paced crime mystery set in Miami Beach in 1968.
Helen, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp; Rachel, who led 2,500 Jewish children out of Germany during World War ll; Mary, and Lilly have been living in Miami Beach for a decade when a greedy, ruthless real estate developer named “the Austrian”, together with the politicians he has been paying off for years, try to evict them from their home.
The Austrian will stop at nothing, even murder, to get the land that he wants. But who is he really? And what secret is he hiding?
In desperation, the women turn to Helen’s alcoholic nephew, attorney Joshua Logan, to save them from eviction. Can he do it?
An international crime mystery with a compelling story line that takes us from sunny, corrupt Miami Beach back to the horrors of World War ll. 4.0 stars on Amazon
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Author Bio:
Brooklyn-born, successful New Jersey class-action attorney turned author Norman Shabel has been driven to write ever since he can remember. By the time he was in his twenties he had written several novels that ended up stuffed in drawers as he launched his legal career, married and had a family.
To date Norman has written 7 plays and 8 novels, some written in long-hand, hunched over his desk while waiting for a jury verdict to come in and all dealing with either crime, relatable family dynamics or both.
“Courts are inherently dramatic places, and I guess I saw that connection between law and theater before I even realized it,” Norman said recently. His earnest belief is that lawyers need to be good storytellers to engage juries in the “plot” of a case. “You need to hold the interest of a jury if you’re going to win them over, much like the arc of a play or the plot of a novel. If the juror or the reader or audience member gets bored you lose them very quickly. If you don’t capture them in the first 20 minutes you may as well go home – and I never like to lose a case or an audience. ”
To date, three of Norman’s plays have been produced off Broadway in NYC, Philadelphia and multiple theaters in South Florida, where he now resides for part of the year. The productions have received wonderful reviews and there are plans underway for one of the plays to, ‘A Class Act’, to be produced in London next year.
Norman’s novels are mostly “terrific, fast-paced reads about the dark side of law enforcement and the judiciary” according to Judge Andrew P. Napolitano. He writes, as only an experienced trial lawyer can, about the ups and downs of the legal system, maintaining the drama of the story without sacrificing the realities of the of the structure. All of his books can be purchased on Amazon and other digital booksellers.
According to Norman, “I’m doing two things that both give my life meaning, I’m a very fortunate man.”