The Big Black Bag: A Novel

Barbara Karen Sherman

јул 2016. · AuthorHouse

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Joe De Killer likes keeping everything in his life under control. As a ruthless partner in a prominent law firm, Joe uses his power to verbally abuse his staff, dresses in a mix of leather and Yves Saint Laurent, and believes that no one is indispensable, including his lover, Ingrid. Now he is secretly developing a narcissistic plan to live in luxury for the remainder of his life. To carry out his plan to embezzle funds from his law firm, Joe enlists the help of Ivan, a lawyer acquaintance, to keep the money hidden from the prying eyes of his fellow partners and Ingrid, who is becoming more of a hindrance with each day. In their mad scramble from the law, the two associates in crime suddenly find themselves caught in a series of adventures that take themand Ingridback in time where supernatural forces add to the suspense and intrigue. But what no one knows is that the golden boy, Joe, is full of interesting surprises. In this legal thriller, a law firm partner attempting to fulfill his egocentric dreams is transported back in time where he proves that he is smarter, shiftier, and more selfish than anyone could have predicted.

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Barbara Karen Sherman has always been interested in writing from the time she was in grammar school, where she wrote and illustrated her own short stories. While there, she won a special award for her writing. When she was an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh, one of her short stories was chosen for submission to the Atlantic Monthly Short Story College Contest. After receiving her Master of Arts degree in 19th-Century American Literature, she become a writer/editor for Good Housekeeping’s Special Publications, where she and another editor wrote and put together two entire issues. From there, she went on to become writer/editor of 12 beauty magazines, then publicist for the Chesebrough-Ponds beauty accounts, for which she wrote a home-permanents manual and television commercials. She now resides in West Orange, New Jersey. This is her first novel.