Author: Lisa Scottoline
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: smile, killer
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0060514957
ISBN-13: 9780060514952

Everybody around lawyer Mary DiNunzio has decided she isn’t allowed to be a Young Widow anymore, even though she didn’t know there was an official cutoff. They’re all trying to fix her up -- her South Philly Italian parents, her best friend Judy Carrier, even the office security guard. All Mary wants to do is immerse herself in a case everybody else calls "The History Channel", a pro bono representation of the Brandolini estate. The roots of the matter sink deep into the past, when Amadeo Brandolini emigrated to Philadelphia, started a family, and built up a small fishing

Author: Lisa Scottoline
Publisher: Pan Publishing
Keywords: girl, daddy
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0330443852
ISBN-13: 9780330443852

Law professor Natalie Greco has an ordered life. She feels a passion for teaching, especially her arcane seminar on the History of Justice, even though the course is pathetically under subscribed in the high-powered law school. She has an attentive boyfriend and a protective family, although her testosterone-fueled big brothers and very successful parents tend to overlook the quiet Nat. Then one terrible day, everything changes. Nat accompanies her colleague Angus to a prison in Chester County where he’s a guest lecturer. It’s a nice day for a drive through the countryside, the sit

Author: Lisa Scottoline
Publisher: Macmilla
Keywords:
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-07-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0230741894
ISBN-13: 9780230741898

This is a high-octane thriller from "New York Times" top ten bestseller writer. Ellen is a single mother, and a feature writer for a local Philadelphia newspaper, recently taken over by a new hot editor, Marcelo, who though gorgeous, has not been short in letting staff go. Ellen knows that, like others, her job may be on the line, and she is more vulnerable than most, for she has a three-year old adopted son, Will, who is the love of her life. As she goes to collect her post one morning, she picks up a ’Missing Child’ card, and is struck by the uncanny resemblance between Will and

Author: Lisa Scottoline
Publisher: HarperTorch
Keywords: justice, rough
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0061096105
ISBN-13: 9780061096105

Criminal lawyer Marta Richter is hours away from winning an acquittal for her client, millionaire businessman Elliot Steere, on trial for the murder of a homeless man who had tried to carjack him. But as the jury begins deliberations, Marta discovers the chilling truth about her client’s innocence. Taking justice into her own hands, she furiously sets out to prove the truth, with the help of two young associates. In an excruciating game of beat-the-clock with both the jury and the worst blizzard to hit Philadelphia in decades, Marta will learn that the search for justice isn’t only

Author: Lisa Scottoline
Publisher: HarperTorch
Keywords: smile, killer
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0060514965
ISBN-13: 9780060514969

Lawyer Mary DiNunzio’s new case is a mystery—the strange suicide of an Italian fisherman interned during a dark, unspoken chapter in American history. Armed only with the puzzle pieces of a lock of hair, an old photograph, and a paper covered with indecipherable doodles, Mary digs deep into the case and suspects betrayal—and murder. Meantime, Mary’s friends worry that her investigation is becoming an obsession, so they set her up on a series of truly disastrous blind dates. She escapes romance only to risk life and limb to hunt down a ruthless killer. But someone in the shadows

Author: Lisa Scottoline
Publisher: HarperTorch
Keywords: tender, legal
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0061094129
ISBN-13: 9780061094125

Benedetta "Bennie" Rosato is a maverick lawyer who prosecutes police misconduct and excessive-force cases, and business at her firm of Rosato & Biscardi has never been better. Then, without warning, a savage murder tears the firm apart.All evidence points to Bernie, who has motive aplenty and an unconfirmable alibi. Her world turns upside down as the lawyer becomes the client, and the cops she once prosecuted are now after her--with a vengeance. To prove her innocence, Bennie probes deep into the murder. Then another killing takes place--a crime punishable by death. Running for her lif

Author: Lisa Scottoline
Publisher: HarperTorch
Keywords: truth, moment
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2001-02-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0061030597
ISBN-13: 9780061030598

Moment of Truth is the story of a man who frames himself for murder.  When attorney Jack Newin discovers his wife dead in their elegant home, he’s convinced he knows who killed her -- and is equally determined to hide the truth.  He decides to take the rap, and to seal his fate he hires the most inexperienced laywer he can find, a reluctant rookie by the name of Mary DiNunzio from the hot Philadelphia firm of Rosato & Associates.  But hiring Mary may turn out to be his biggest mistake.  Mary doubts Jack’s confession, and her ethics and instincts tell her she can’t def