About Karen Campbell

Portrait of the Artist as an Attorney

Perry Mason in the Courtroom, Erle Stanley Gardner at the Typewriter Joan Lukey wrote her first book when she was only 11 years old. It was an 80-page novella about twin sisters who lived in Switzerland and had to solve the mystery of a missing will. “See,” she says, tongue in cheek, “even then, there was a legal element to my writing.” These days she is well known for both her expert legal writing and her engaging, suspenseful fiction that captures the color and drama of the …