Politics and Murder: Par for the Course
Public Comment holds up a satiric small-town mirror to governance as a really good place to hide murderous secrets.
Wendell Williams, a stunted and narcissistic groundskeeper at a local golf course, contemplates and commits a couple of murders. He has his reasons (tremendous reasons), and the golf course proves convenient for his purposes. To keep his secrets buried, he convinces half the townspeople that he is a visionary leader and that any development of the golf course property is not in the interests of the town. But Debra Wolfson, a plump, middle-aged family-law mediator and dedicated selectwoman with a fondness for oatmeal raisin cookies, finds herself on a collision course with the mendacious Wendell. While everyone is losing their heads over the turmoil that Wendell purposefully stokes, Debra is determined to keep hers and expose Wendell as a charlatan who has no business getting elected to public office.
Public Comment
A new novel in the Debra Wolfson Mystery series. This book will be released March 2026. This is a Preorder.
S. L. Jacobs has spent most of her adult life at the intersection of law and politics, and even with that she manages to find hope and humor in the world. Although she hails from Los Angeles, she is a longtime resident of Connecticut, with extended stops along the way in Washington, DC; France; and England. She is a loud and long-standing participant in any choir that will have her, and she has performed in and written for dozens of community theater productions (if the show calls for a bossy woman, she gets the part). Public Comment is her debut novel.