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Summary: Totally entertaining!
Review: My first encounter with Lisa Scottoline's work and I thoroughly enjoyed this story. It has all of the elements of a good legal thriller, which kept me guessing all the way to the end. The plot moved at a fast clip and the writing and characters were colorful. To those who read with precious little time as I do, this book was totally entertaining and one I would definitely recommend.
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Summary: Mistaken Identity is gripping
Review: Nothing can prepare criminal attorney Bennie Rosato for the moment she enters a maximum-security prison to meet an accused murderer of a highly decorated police detective. A defendant protesting her innocence is not unusual for Bennie, what turns her world upside-down is when she sees her client. So begins a rough & tumble, hell- bent-for-leather, rip-snorting roller coaster ride of a mad dash toward justice. Maybe! Lisa Scottoline has been monickered as "The Female John Grisham" & I can see why. Not only is her writing style torqued to Mach 1, her story & the fleeting, evocative glimpses of the minds of people zigzagging along that thin legal line is enough to bring Grisham fans to their feet! Very well done! For my full review please go to: ( )
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Summary: Crackling legal thriller
Review: Scottoline has written an excellent, "can't put it down" thriller, featuring her sometime heroine, Bennie Rosato (Scottoline has a revolving cast of characters who take center stage in each novel)When a woman on trial for murder tells lawyer Bennie Rosato that she is her identical twin, the mystery, suspense and action are only beginning. Scottoline has a great sense of dialague and character, and I enjoyed this novel a lot. She just may be better than Grisham. Also recommended: Rough Justice.
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Summary: Yes, 'Girls Rule', but not in the manner presented!
Review: You must love the smartly dressed receptionist in Bennie's 'all girl' firm? No, it was a fashion house, there were enough clothing descriptions through the book for me to deem it that. This is the first Lisa Scottoline novel I've read and it's, well, readable? The climax of the book was so unbelievable, Ford Exporer climbing steps? Give your head a shake. I cared nothing for the characters at that point either. Time to read a Pulitzer prize winner, perhaps a Nobel,or a Booker because I know this author's coming back with her identical twin...what will she be wearing?
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Summary: ......yawn
Review: I read about 100 pages of this book and the last 50 or so were a struggle. I was so bored with this book that I gave up on it. I didn't particularly like any of these characters, and the story was very slow-moving.
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Summary: Mistaken Identity
Review: I read books of this genre for entertainment and relaxation and Mistaken Identity satisfied me in both ways. I don't have the "lawyerly" knowledge to trip up my enjoyment, but I am usually willing to suspend disbelief a bit for a "good read." That is, after all, a tradition when writing and reading fiction. I look for interesting, well developed characters, a compelling plot, and decent writing; Scottoline delivers all three. There are questions unanswered, sure! I trust (and look forward to) Scottoline answering them somewhere farther down the line. I would offer this book to friends to read.
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Summary: A Page Turner
Review: For someone who was never into "lawyer" books, I found this one to be engaging from the first page to the very last. While admittedly I do not possess a law background, I was not as upset as some of the other reviewers who criticized certain rulings in the book. All that aside, this story was thrilling, suspenseful, with a great surprise ending. (Don't worry, I won't spoil it for ya!) I couldn't put the book down, I just wanted to know the truth and who was behind it all. If some of you are saying this isn't one of Scottoline's best works, well, I can't wait to get my hands on her other books!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: It's disappointng to read a book by a former "trial lawyer at a prestigious firm" which inserts plot devices which would not happen in a real criminal trial.
In a real prosecution, if the defendant wanted to fire her attorney and hire a new attorney, the old attorney would have no grounds to oppose the motion. Nor would any competent trial counsel go looking for evidence by herself, without bringing along an investigator who could testify as to what was found.
When the motion for a continuance was denied, it's true that such a motion can't be "appealed," but there IS a writ process available where the denial of the motion could be brought to the appellate court's attention.
I also doubt that a trial court would literally "strike" testimony heard by the jury from the appellate record, as the author suggests happens.
The book is over-long for the writing, plot and characters. The denouement of the "defendant" plot line, end of chapter 96, is both tasteless and illogical. The author tries some plot twists like Crichton in _Disclosure_, but just doesn't pull them off. Instead of "now I see what was happening," the reader feels, "the author intentionally lied to me."
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Summary: Should have been better
Review: I don't usually read court room dramas. This had the interesting twist of the defendant and defense counsel being twins who'd never previously met. The book falls apart at the end because as the reader I was more interested in the twin aspect than the outcome of the trial. There's no resolution between the two women.
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Summary: A DISAPPOINTING FIRST READ OF THIS AUTHOR
Review: This was my first, and probably last, of Lisa Scottoline's novels. I was very disappointed in the end (reminded me of Grisham's "Testament") in that there were many unanswered questions. The story really didn't live up to the review on the back cover. I won't be passing this book on to friends. A very disappointed amount of money spent and several hours wasted. I kept thinking it would get better, it never did.
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