6/10/2023 0 Comments Leapholes by James Grippando![]() Grippando, whose legal thrillers for grown-ups are published by HarperCollins, approached the ABA after seeing how it promoted The Shadow of Justice, a murder mystery written by prominent Miami defense attorney Milton Hirsch. She said, ‘I want to go to 1955 and see Rosa Parks.’ We giggled about that. My daughter asked why can’t we go there? I thought she meant Alabama. She asked me, ‘Was Rosa Parks a real person?’ I told her yes, and about Montgomery, Ala., in 1955. ![]() “When I first started writing Leapholes, my oldest daughter was in first grade,” Grippando says. Along the way, readers meet key figures in seminal cases and events, such as the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955-56 that helped launch the modern civil rights movement. Leapholes-a play on a term of legal vernacular-features a lawyer who jumps through the pages of casebooks to go back in time. The ABA was branching out from the traditional nuts-and-bolts focus of its book-publishing efforts, and Grippando offered a high-profile opportunity to continue that stretch. ![]() There was, however, logic to the partnership. His crime and legal thrillers-many of which feature the exploits of fictional criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck-have become staples of the best-seller lists.īut it was just as big a departure for the publisher Grippando chose for Leapholes-his 2006 release for young readers-ABA Publishing. When James Grippando decided to write a children’s book, it was a drastic departure for the lawyer-turned-novelist. ![]()
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