Elizabeth Webster and the Court of Uncommon Pleas by William Lashner

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Disclosure: I received a free copy of the book from the publisher. Opinions shared are mine.


If there’s anything middle school kids love more than sarcasm, it’s witty almost-humor. My students pretend to groan at my corny puns, but secretly they love it. I mean, you remember middle school, right? It’s that point in life when everything seems like a cosmic joke. Elizabeth Webster has this attitude down pat!

There’s something to be said for a book that has positive messages while still being kid-appealing. Elizabeth’s friends are funny and smart, and her little brother Peter is as charming as can be. I love the strong theme topics of friendship and family that resonate through the story. There are a lot of funny one-liners, too, that might stir up some eye rolling from the teens in your life. Some grown-up issues are mentioned, but mostly seen through Elizabeth’s point of view…so not too descriptive.

I liked this book so much that I plan to listen to the audiobook with my own personal kids. Complete with haunted house and muttering ghost, it’s the perfect book to listen to during the Halloween season.

About the Book

Title: ELIZABETH WEBSTER AND THE COURT OF UNCOMMON PLEAS

Author: William Lashner

Pub. Date: October 15, 2019

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook

Pages: 320

Welcome to Elizabeth Webster’s world, where the common laws of middle school torment her days . . . and the uncommon laws of an even weirder realm govern her nights.

Elizabeth Webster is happy to stay under the radar (and under her bangs) until middle school is dead and gone. But when star swimmer Henry Harrison asks Elizabeth to tutor him in math, it’s not linear equations Henry really needs help with-it’s a flower-scented, poodle-skirt-wearing, head-tossing ghost who’s calling out Elizabeth’s name.

But why Elizabeth? Could it have something to do with her missing lawyer father? Maybe. Probably. If only she could find him. In her search, Elizabeth discovers more than she is looking for: a grandfather she never knew, a startling legacy, and the secret family law firm, Webster & Son, Attorneys for the Damned.


Elizabeth and her friends soon land in court, where demons and ghosts take the witness stand and a red-eyed judge with a ratty white wig hands out sentences like sandwiches. Will Elizabeth’s father arrive in time to save Henry Harrison-and is Henry the one who really needs saving?


Set in the historic streets of Philadelphia, this riveting middle-grade mystery from New York Times best-selling author William Lashner will have readers banging their gavels and calling for more from the incomparable Elizabeth Webster.

About William:

William Lashner is the New York Times Bestselling creator of Victor Carl, who has been called by Booklist one of the mystery novel’s “most compelling, most morally ambiguous characters.” The Victor Carl novels, which have been translated into more than a dozen foreign languages and have been sold all across the globe, include BAGMEN, KILLER’S KISS, FALLS THE SHADOW, FATAL FLAW, and HOSTILE WITNESS. He is also the author of GUARANTEED HEROES, THE BARKEEP, which was an Edgar Award nominee and a Digital Book World Number One Bestseller, THE ACCOUNTING, and BLOOD AND BONE.

Writing under the pseudonym of Tyler Knox, Lashner is also the author of KOCKROACH, described as “roaringly entertaining,” by Publisher’s Weekly, and “an energetic tour de force,” by USA Today. As Tyler Knox he has written a number of book reviews for the Washington Post Book World.

Lashner was a criminal prosecutor with the Department of Justice in Washington D.C. before quitting the law to write fulltime. A graduate of the New York University School of Law, as well as the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he lives with his wife and three children outside Philadelphia.

William Lashner Photo © Sigrid Estrada


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Comments

  1. I think my teen would love to read this. Love the graphics on the cover

  2. Jessica Peeling says

    This looks awesome for halloween!

  3. This looks like a book that would be interesting to read.

  4. Thanks for the giveaway.

  5. Anne PErry says

    I love a good mystery.

  6. Donna Teller says

    I think my niece would really enjoy this book.

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