In 'Trials of a Dead Lawyer's Wife,' Savannah Author Seeks Answers Around Ex's Death

Even in the prime of her life, memoirist Maggie Redmon knows exactly what she wants on her tombstone: “Well, it couldn't have happened to a better writer.” 

Upon reading her debut book, “Trials of a Dead Lawyer’s Wife,” it becomes clear why this is such a fitting epitaph for someone with such a distinct and often humorous authorial voice. 

Redmon always planned on becoming a writer, envisioning her name (her real name, that is—Maggie Redmon is a pseudonym) under humorous stories à la Twain and Sedaris. But the universe had other plans. Instead of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” or “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” Redmon discovered her authorial voice when her divorce came to a halt when her disbarred husband, Scott, died unexpectedly in 1997.

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