Foreword Review By Katerie Prior
Trials of a Dead Lawyer’s Wife is a noir-hued memoir about a suspicious death in a Southern town.
Maggie Redmon’s compelling memoir Trials of a Dead Lawyer’s Wife concerns a death in the family.
Redmon once had an ideal life with her second husband, Scott, a reputable Georgia lawyer. But when Scott descended into the throes of addiction—a situation that led to a felony charge, his disbarment, the loss of the couple’s financial nest egg, and an affair with a nurse—she began divorce proceedings. When Scott died from a supposed overdose, Redmon felt that the circumstances surrounding his death didn’t add up, including the fact that he bequeathed the nurse a half a million dollars the same day that he died. Redmon so began an investigation into her husband’s death—and into the nurse’s background.