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Summary: Here's Moment of Truth, from the horse's mouth.
Review: Moment of Truth is my newest novel, and I hope my best. The book is about Jack Newlin, a man who frames himself for murder. Instead of the typical situation, in which a guilty person falsely proclaims his innocence, in Moment of Truth, an innocent man is falsely proclaiming his guilt. Why? To protect his daughter. The man, Jack Newlin, convinces the police that he committed the murder by staging the crime scene and by faking evidence, but then meets his match in his lawyer, Mary DiNunzio. DiNunzio disbelieves his false confession and fights him to prove his own innocence and get to the truth about the murder. Ultimately, Moment of Truth is a novel about the collision between family and justice. I think people will enjoy the book, and I appreciate so much the readers I have. Anyone can write me with their comments.
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Summary: another entertaining read
Review: i enjoyed this book as much as mistaken identity - keep up the good wor
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Summary: Moment of Truth
Review: Loved it! Loved it! I couldn't put it down and was totally bummed when I finished it.
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Summary: Read the Book in One Day
Review: Just briefly want to say, I have NEVER read a complete book in one day. Usually because there are always places that you can stop and do errands, chores, etc. However, this book does NOT allow for any such nonsense. Between the suspense and the moments of humor, Ms. Scottoline certainly has a winner in this book.
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Summary: SCOTTOLINE DOES IT AGAIN!
Review: I coudn't put this book down but I didn't want it to end. Just when you think you know where the plot is going you turn out to be wrong. I got caught up in the characters and I look forward to seeing some additions in future books.
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Summary: Another great thriller!
Review: Once again Lisa Scottoline has taken us through unexpected twists and turns in her latest legal thriller! Judy DiNunzio, an associate in Bennie Rosato's law firm, is the heroine! Her client, Jack Newlin, has falsely proclaimed his guilt in his own wife's murder. Who is he protecting? It's a "must" read -- a true Scottoline thriller! You won't be disappointed!
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Summary: Big Improvement Over Her "Mistaken Identity"
Review: This is the second novel I've read by Scottoline and I like it much better than my first, "Mistaken Identity." A huge problem with "Mistaken Identity" is how unlikable all the lead characters were. Add to that a totally improbable plot and resolution and I wasn't eager for another Scottoline "thriller". Big surprise though, for in "Moment Of Truth" she has two very likable lead characters, Mary DiNunzio, the defense lawyer, and Jack Newlin, the defendant and Mary's client, who admits to murdering his wife so as to protect his teenage daughter. Scottoline even shows a bit of a sense of humor with having Mary constantly fantasize about escaping from the law into just about every other career that exists. There is also a dash of romance in this one between Mary and Jack. Mary is also very accurately depicted as a young woman of Italian American Catholic family, a heritage I share. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel and the plot really did move. The only reason I don't give it a 5 star rating is that I really can't put this in the same ranking as Scott Turow's "Presumed Innocent," which was not only a heck of a legal book but was also quite a piece of mainstream fiction that continued to haunt me long after I finished it. I can't imagine remembering any of Scottoline's work for long after I finish reading it. It is nice escapist fiction and an evening's entertainment but that's as far as it goes. Since I am a lawyer, I may be a harder "sell" on this type of fiction though than another reader, who is not a lawyer, may be.
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Summary: One of the Best Books I've Ever Read!
Review: This is an amazing book! I'm not one to go to the mistery section and look for a book, but this book is truly captivating...I couldn't put it down! It's an easy read, which is good once in a while and it's the type of book that when you've finished it, you're sad. You're missing out if you don't read this book!
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Summary: Thrilling Moments
Review: When attorney Jack Newlin discovers his murdered wife's body, he thinks his daughter killed her and he confesses rather than see her go to jail. He then hires inexperienced attorney Mary DiNunzio to defend him. But Mary believes he is innocent and decides to prove it, placing herself, Jack, and Jack's daughter, Paige, in danger. Can Mary find the killer before she becomes the next victim?
This legal thriller is a fun read. The characters, for the most part, are well written and come to life, especially Mary and her family, although I got tired of reading about Mary's Catholic guilt complex. Jack, and his daughter, Paige, are also well written, Paige especially, who, as a teen model, could have been a cliché, but instead she is a sad, complex, character. The secondary characters are also well developed, especially Lou and cops Brinkley and Kovich. The plot had enough twists and turns that the identity of the real murderer was a complete surprise.
This is a good book for fans of legal thrillers.
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Summary: Great thriller; lousy lawyers
Review: As Roger Ebert once said, you can never enjoy a movie shot in your own dining room--all you'll see is the stained wallpaper. As a lawyer, I know what he means, having thoroughly enjoyed--yet been driven crazy by--this legal thriller.
As a mystery, this book kept me engaged from opening line--one of the best ever, by the way--to the Epilogue 60 some chapters later. Plot twists abound, interesting characters, building tension, and bodies piling up as the story progresses.
BUT--these people are all supposed to be lawyers. The entire plot is driven by every lawyer in the book jumping from one conclusion to another, each with less evidence than the one before. Lawyers are supposed to be skilled at organizing evidence into a coherent story, and then persuading others of that story's truth. Theses characters all act on hunches, with no evidence whatsoever.
Maybe this would be plausible for our "hero"--an admittedly brand new lawyer with virtually no criminal experience who jumps into a murder case head first in the deep end. But Jack--whose opening monologue justifying his false confession to himself opens this book so powerfully--is supposedly a top estates lawyer at one of Philly's very most prestigious firms. If he practices law based on the paucity of research on which he acts in this book, his clients ought to all get a refund.
Anyway, despite spending much of the book (and particularly the second half) yelling at the characters in my car, I thoroughly enjoyed the story, and will definitely read more of Scottoline (perhaps her more experienced lawyer character, who spends this entire book off stage, understands the use of evidence better than the relatively inexperienced lead character here.
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