<DIV><p>"Paula Priamos' <I>The Shyster's Daughter</I> is a wonderfully written charged memoir?utterly absorbing and packed with sharp details. Direct, evocative, emotionally honest, brave, and funny, Priamos' voice shines. <I>The Shyster's Daughter</I> is a suspenseful investigative journey, but its emotional core vibrates with Priamos' homage to her deeply flawed and deeply loved father, and to their complicated and enduring relationship."?Victoria Patterson, author of <I>This Vacant Paradise</I> and <I>Drift</I></p><p><I>The last time my father calls is shortly before the anniversary of his disbarment to tell me he's just cheated death. On his end, there's background noise?a restaurant, a bar or somewhere far sleazier. Since the divorce he licks his wounds at a topless strip club in Garden Grove called the Kat Nip.</I></p><p><I>The Shyster's Daughter</I> is a detective memoir of a Greek family living in Southern California in the late 1900s. The author, whose father was an attorney with clients who were often questionable characters knowing a side of him unseen by his family, looks into his death and finds more questions than answers.</p><p><B>Paula Priamos</B>' writing has been featured in various magazines and in the anthology <I>Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer</I>. She teaches at California State University and lives in Southern California with her husband and stepsons. This is her first book.</p><BR></DIV>