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Summary: Good work
Review: Scottoline's legal novels are easy to read and interesting in nature. This book has an interesting twist in the end but it comes from nowhere and it seems like she was in a hurry to finsih the book.
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Summary: Run Bennie, Run
Review: Thanks Dave for dumping this book at my place! Legal Tender is suspenseful, funny and well written.Bennie Rosato is a great lead: Resourceful, down to earth and she doesn't loose her sense of humour even in the hairiest situations: Accused of killing her ex-lover and lawfirm partner, there's no way she'll let the cops catch her before she solved that, and some other, murder. Good on her!
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Summary: Attorney hides from law as she tries to prove her innocence.
Review: The main thing I want to post about this book, is the fact that the heroine is feeding a stray cat Snickers bars and Coke. Chocolate is toxic to dogs and to cats and authors should not print this type of potentially harmful information just to be 'cute.' I have written Lisa to get her comments, but she has yet to respond. Anyone else out there who loves animals and dislikes irresponsible authors? Overall, my opinion of the book was fair. I found it silly and not really suspenseful.
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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: The only thing I regret is not the money I spent but the time I wasted reading this book. But I guess there are enough 3rd graders out there who will enjoy it.
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Summary: Fast paced with humor - couldn't put it down.
Review: The story moves quickly and holds one's interest. I have read other works by this author and have yet to be disappointed.
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Summary: Another winner from Lisa Scottoline!
Review: This book is one wild ride--funny, suspenseful, and at times very moving. Bennie Rosato, the heroine, gives new meaning to the word "resourceful". You'll feel as if you are on the wild ride with her. Be sure to read Lisa Scottoline's other novels, "Everywhere That Mary Went", "Final Appeal", "Running from the Law", and "Rough Justice".
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Summary: True page turner
Review: This book is the typical fast paced Lisa style. It was very enjoyable to read. My only complaint was the ending. It was a big let down, however, it is worth the read and is a hands down page turner.
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Summary: Fabulous Book
Review: This book took me by surprise. I really enjoy Grisham's novels and was quite happy to find out the Lisa Scottoline writes in pretty much the same manner. This book grabs your attention right at the beginning and doesn't let go. I was very impressed with the main character Bennie. She is down to earth, intelligent, and rescourceful. I recommend this book to anyone. Also, about the one bad review I saw on this book by the person pointing out that chocolate shouldn't be fed to cats and dogs. Everyone knows this, you don't down play a perfectly good book simply because she fed chocolate to a cat. After all, the book is fiction. . .
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Summary: Philadelphia Story
Review: This is clever writing. The narrator is Benedetta, a trial attorney and movement follower. Her law firm in Philadelphia pursues lawsuits of social importance. A friend at a white shoe firm tells Bennie that he has heard that two of the associates in her firm are defecting. He tells her that socialism does not work, autocracy does. She finds out that actually three associates are seeking other jobs. The two partners wanted to do well and do good. Then Mark, the other partner, (they are no longer involved romantically), tells Bennie it, the law firm, is finished. Mark has already found her new office space.
Bennie's mother is so depressed that shock therapy is being considered. She has her splintering firm and her failing mother with an exhausted caretaker and her own emotions burdening her when she learns that her partner has been killed. She becomes the client of one of the associates who steps forward promptly since she is now a suspect. He is the most accomplished of the associates having clerked for a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. She finds that Mark named her in his will and that he had significant family-derived wealth.
Philadelphia's police administration building is called the Roundhouse. Bennie feels her career crash and burn. She speaks of reporters laying techno-siege to the townhouse where the firm is located. She provides the police with a tip to prevent crime and the police decide that she has something to do with a bombing. Bennie goes to the high-powered law firm and invents a ghost lawyer in order to hide in plain sight. The story is full of action and interest.
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Summary: A great picaresque tale
Review: This is the fifth book by Lisa Scottoline that I have read. After being given The Vendetta Defense, I was hooked, and am now trying to read the rest of her books methodically and in order. When you get to know a writer's style, sometimes it is disappointing to figure out the formula. So far, I have not felt this way about Scottoline. She always adds enough new twists to keep me interested. Of course, if a reader cannot suspend a certain amount of disbelief, he or she will not like this book. There is an unmistakable degree of sly exaggeration. But like any good spoof, it tells the truth. Anybody who personally knows any lawyer even slightly will understand the author's "digs" at law firms' predilection for client billing. And Scottoline has a wicked ability to caricature the different lawyer types, much as she clearly maps out the social strata of the different floors of a law firm, starting with the Loser Floor. One reason she maintains suspense is that all her characters are well fleshed out, evincing both good and bad qualities, so that unlike the case with usual villain archetypes, by the time the book reaches its denouement, the identity of who- actually-dun-it surprises us. And her wonderful character on the lam, Bennie Rosato, leads a merry chase because the author clearly knows her venues-- and how the system works--so well. Although more sympathetic than the typical picaresque protagonist, Rosato has enough gall and chutzpah to be convincing. The embattled heroine pulls off several little stings which give the reader a triumphant if vicarious satisfaction. There are superb ironies here: the only person who heeds her questionable alter ego's so-called pleas for non-billable help is the head of the firm. And the elderly security guard at the tacky office of the sleazy (and hilariously inappropriately named) lawyer, Mr. Celeste, turns out to be actually more on the ball than the gaggle of smooth but naïve young gatekeepers at the posh building that houses highly successful firms. Scottoline's undergraduate degree was in English, and it shows. Not only does she know the law, but she understands literature, and there are layers of wit and plot, as well as substance and subtext, to her writing that are enormously gratifying. In other words, she writes good.
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