Lisa Scottoline
1) Daddy's girl
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Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class. When a colleague talks Nat into teaching a class at a local prison, her comfortable world turns upside. A violent prison riot breaks out, and in the chaos, Nat rushes to help an injured guard. Before he dies, he asks her to deliver a cryptic message. The dying declaration plunges Nat into a nightmare. Suddenly, the girl who has always...
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When prosecutor Vicki Allegretti arrives at a rowhouse to meet a confidential informant, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and almost shot to death. She barely escapes with her life, but cannot save the two others gunned down before her disbelieving eyes. Stunned and heartbroken, Vicki tries to figure out how a routine meeting on a minor case became a double homicide.
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 4
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Crack trial lawyer Bennie Rosato is called to the local prison to consult with Alice Connolly, a woman accused of committing cold-blooded murder and who wants Bennie to represent her at the trial. Bennie has no intention of taking the case, until she comes face to face with the incarcerated woman is a dead ringer for Bennie -- and claims to be her long-lost twin sister. Disbelieving but somehow convinced, Bennie takes on the case against her better...
4) Dead ringer
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 8
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Philadelphia attorney Bennie Rosato and her colleagues, having taken on a class-action suit that could save the firm from financial disaster, find their efforts complicated when Bennie is arrested for crimes committed by her ex-con twin sister, and her client, Robert St. Amien, is murdered.
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 7
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A new novel featuring the all-female ass-kicking wise-cracking Philadelphia law firm Rosato and Associates How many people get to solve their own murder? A quiet Fourth of July weekend at the beach is shattered when Anne Murphy opens her morning newspaper. Staring back at her from the front page is her own photo, under the headline LAWYER MURDERED. Once the body in the morgue is identified, the murderer will realize their mistake. In the meantime,...
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 5
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Attorney Jack Newlin comes home one evening to find his wife, Honor, dead on the floor of their elegant dining room. Convinced that he knows who killed her--and determined to hide the truth--Jack decides to make it look as though he did it. Staging the crime scene so that the evidence incriminates him, he then calls the police. And to hammer the final nail in his own coffin, he hires the most inexperienced lawyer he can find, a reluctant rookie by...
7) Legal tender
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 2
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Lawyer Benedetta Rosato has made a career out of prosecuting police misconduct and excessive-force cases, so she does not expect any sympathy when she is accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend and partner and must go into hiding until she can prove her innocence.
8) Dirty blonde
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New judge Cate Fante, is attractive, sexy, and tough-minded. In spite of her new status in the elite meritocracy however, she is more attracted to bad boys and working-class men than legal types. When someone from her court case is shot to death and the accused killer is apprehended, Cate's appalled to discover that she knows the accused and that her private life is now splashed all over the papers. To clear her name, she must find a murderer.
9) Killer smile
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 9
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When she receives personal threats and an associate is murdered, young lawyer Mary DiNunzio realizes that her latest case, involving a World War II internment camp suicide, may have deadly modern-day ties.
11) Rough justice
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 3
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Marta Richter, a lawyer with the all-female firm Rosato & Associates, is hours away from winning an acquittal for millionaire businessman Elliot Steere, when she learns he has lied to her and is really guilty of murder, but her efforts to find evidence to convict her own client are thwarted by her boss Benedetta Rosato, who has a better plan for dealing with their crooked client.
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 1
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Mary DiNunzio, a lawyer who has been struggling for years to make partner in the Philadelphia law firm where she is employed, finds herself fighting a more desperate battle when the crank phone calls she has been getting turn deadly.
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 6
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When "Pigeon Tony" an elderly pigeon racer is arrested for the murder of his lifelong enemy Angelo Coluzzi, the Coluzzi's family seek revenge on Pigeon Tony and his lawyer Judy Carrier.
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"Everyone's favorite mother-daughter writing duo is back with a collection of stories that will strike a chord with every woman. With Francesca navigating New York City, Lisa holding down the fort in the suburbs, and Mother Mary making frequent and always entertaining appearances, there are plenty of opportunities for family-induced guilt, fighting, laughter, and love. So come along for the ride as Lisa and Francesca continue on the road of life...
18) Final Appeal
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Grace Rossi is starting over after a divorce, and a part-time job with a federal appeals court sounds perfect. But she doesn't count on being assigned to an explosive death penalty appeal. Nor does she expect ardor in the court in the form of an affair with the chief judge. Then Grace finds herself investigating a murder, unearthing a secret bank account and following a trail of bribery and judicial corruption that's stumped even the FBI. In no time...
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Just in time for Christmas comes a collection of the very best holiday essays from the bestselling Mother/Daughter writing duo.
Whether their shopping for matching reindeer dog sweaters or having second helpings of eggnog, Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella will keep you warm with their humor and heart. So give yourself some holiday cheer in the midst of all the shopping, cooking, wrapping, and baking madness...you deserve to get a little Happy...
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The unstoppable, irreverent mother-daughter team presents a new collection of funny stories and true confessions that every woman can relate to. From identity theft to the hazards of bicycling to college reunions and eating on the beach, Lisa and Francesca tackle the quirks, absurdities, and wonders of everyday life with wit and warmth. As Lisa says, "More and more, especially in the summertime when I'm sitting on the beach, I'm learning not to sweat...