Mary DiNunzio is a trademark Lisa Scottoline heroine--she's strong, she's smart, and she's got plenty of attitude. In recent years, she's becom... read full description
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May 24, 2011
Jeanette
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Scottoline used to be more legal thriller and less chick lit, but she seems to have reversed the balance in this one. Cute story, but the protagonist (Mary DiNunzio)does virtually no lawyering in this story. She's more like a cross between super sleuth and secret squirrel! :)
Kinda silly in a way, but fun to read. The "Mean Girls" from when Mary was in high school come to her for help, and they act like they're still in high school, even though they're in their 30's. She t More...
Kinda silly in a way, but fun to read. The "Mean Girls" from when Mary was in high school come to her for help, and they act like they're still in high school, even though they're in their 30's. She t More...
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Dec 09, 2011
Michael
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Lady Killer is the first novel ive read by Lisa Scottoline and will not be the last. The story revolves around lawyer Mary DiNunzio who is confronted by an old adversary from her school years Trish Gambone at her work. Trish is very scared and wants Mary's help feeling her life is under threat from her boyfriend who has connection with the mafia. Mary tries to help her but cannot convince Trish to go to the police. The next day Trish goes missing and Mary feeling guilty for not doing more and be
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Apr 05, 2008
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TITLE/AUTHOR: LADY KILLER by Lisa Scottoline
RATING: 4.5/B+
GENRE/PUB DATE/# OF PGS: Mystery/2008/491 LP pgs
SERIES/STAND ALONE: #12 in the Rosato & Associates series
TIME/PLACE: Present/Philadelphia, PA
CHARACTERS: Mary DiNunzio/attorney
FIRST LINES: Mary DiNunzio sat across from the old men, deciding which one to shoot first.
COMMENTS: Library book. It was good to be back w/ Mary and the gang. Mary is very busy helping folks from th More...
TITLE/AUTHOR: LADY KILLER by Lisa Scottoline
RATING: 4.5/B+
GENRE/PUB DATE/# OF PGS: Mystery/2008/491 LP pgs
SERIES/STAND ALONE: #12 in the Rosato & Associates series
TIME/PLACE: Present/Philadelphia, PA
CHARACTERS: Mary DiNunzio/attorney
FIRST LINES: Mary DiNunzio sat across from the old men, deciding which one to shoot first.
COMMENTS: Library book. It was good to be back w/ Mary and the gang. Mary is very busy helping folks from th More...
Feb 11, 2009
Chuck
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I have to admit that Scottoline is probably my favorite living author of legal thrillers. My favorite are her "Rosatto and Associates" series; these all center around an all women law firm in Philadelphia. It stays fresh because the different associates are the main characters in different novels, and so point of view changes. It's interesting to read an entire novel from the point of view of the out of state young lawyer from California, and then to read another from the point of v
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Nov 28, 2008
Alissa
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Mary DiNuzio is back! It’s been four years since Lisa Scottoline wrote a book featuring Rosato & Associates. I’ve been a fan of these books for years and I was looking forward to another great mystery (even though we shelve them in Fiction, and they’re probably more thriller, than mystery - although Mary did more independent sleuthing than I remember, maybe a new twist Lisa’s going to take her on?), and Lady Killerdid not disappoint.
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Sep 14, 2011
Carre
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Disclaimer: In order to appreciate this book fully, you need to listen to the audiobook version read by Barbara Rosenblat. I usually "read" (okay, listen) to audiobooks while I clean my house. I spackled and primed my whole dining room to this one. I think I've found a new favorite author to tide me over in the years when Sue Grafton isn't publishing another Kinsey Milhone installment in her Alphabet Murder Mystery series. The downside is that author Lisa Scottoline's books seem to be
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May 04, 2011
Linda
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In preparation for a beach vacation, I went to the local library to pick through the paperback shelf. I'd seen Scottoline's titles quite a bit at the bookstore where I was working, and when I spotted Lady Killer at the library, I thought, Hmm, seems just about the right speed for beachside reading. This was my first Lisa Scottoline book, and it turned out to be a great pick - excellent for the beach, a fast, fun read, and an author I'll clearly be going back to.
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Apr 12, 2011
Diane A
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Thrown feet first into New York City’s darkest side, the horror and brutality of life flood your imagination. A murderer without conscience, without regret, without a second thought is on the loose. Silently deceptive, cool and calm, the Ladykiller is both cunning and efficient. There are no obvious clues, no clear patterns and no easy answers for Detective Dave Dillon. A haunting mistake from the past makes this his last chance for redemption. The son of an Irish cop, Dillon is stubborn, intuit
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Feb 02, 2011
Nic
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Jan 22, 2011
Antof9
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So first, I just have to say that Mary DiNunzio is part Stephanie Plum and part Kinsey Milhone. I like both those chicks ok, but not necessarily enough to think that we need another one of them on the planet. That is, this book was ok but didn't blow my skirt up. I think I had higher hopes for Mary, maybe, from reading "Think Twice". I can't even tell you why I thought I'd like her better, but in general, she just sort of bugged me.
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Nov 05, 2009
BarkLessWagMore
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Mary DiNunzio is an attorney who is dismayed when former mean girl Trish walks into her office and demands her help. Apparently her boyfriend (who just so happens to be Mary's former love) has become abusive and she fears for her life and has nowhere to turn. Mary makes a few suggestions but Trish refuses police intervention because her boyfriend is in the mob and will kill her. What she expects Mary to do then escapes me . . . but she stomps out of Mary's office in a huff and soon after disappe
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Aug 27, 2009
Melissa
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Mary DiNunzio — South Philadelphia attorney, good Catholic girl and dutiful daughter — is an over-worked lawyer. That we know in the first couple pages. Now her father wants to sue a woman from The Neighborhood for saying disparaging things against Sinatra. She is also dealing with finding assistance for a learning-disabled boy and his desperate mother.
Just when you think she has too much on her plate, and old high school bully, Trish, shows up and claims she is being More...
Aug 04, 2009
Mackenzie
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Of all the books I've read that were written by Scottoline, all the same characters are found in each. For me, just the way she writes, I find my self getting more attached to each character every time I read. You see all their quirks and at times I feel like I am them, and I'm risking it all along with them. It's great.
Trish Gambone, Mary DiNunzio's high school rival, enters Mary's office unexpectedly seeking help from an abusive boyfriend who she thinks is going to kill her. Mary t More...
Trish Gambone, Mary DiNunzio's high school rival, enters Mary's office unexpectedly seeking help from an abusive boyfriend who she thinks is going to kill her. Mary t More...
Aug 19, 2009
Chelsea
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Another book I read due to lack of anything else to do. This wasn't entirely predictable...I mean, yes, there was the obligatory love interest to inject some romance into the novel, but the mystery side of it was surprising and not what you expect. Apparently the author wrote other books featuring some of these characters, which I didn't realize until afterward, but you don't need to read any of the others before reading this one. It stood alone just fine and I followed everything that happened
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Jul 21, 2010
Andrea
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I read this out of order. That's a problem with a series by an author, information relevant to the main character comes from earlier books.
Mary DiNunzio, the subject of Scottoline's earlier books beginning with Everywhere that Mary Went, has been a prolific business developer for Rosato and Associates. Please read Killer Smile before Lady Killer, and a lot of things will become clear.
Starting with a small spat between neighbors in Mary's south Philadelphia neighborhood, More...
Mary DiNunzio, the subject of Scottoline's earlier books beginning with Everywhere that Mary Went, has been a prolific business developer for Rosato and Associates. Please read Killer Smile before Lady Killer, and a lot of things will become clear.
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Feb 04, 2009
Penny
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Scottoline is one of my favorite legal thriller authors. This novel's main character is Mary DiNunzio an associate in the law firm of Rosato & Associates. She is the Mary in Scottoline's "Everywhere That Mary Went" and the protagonist in several other of Scottoline's books.
Drenched in the ethnic culture of an Italian-American heritage, burdened with the "Catholic Guilt" of her childhood and surrounded by family and friends (and some not so friendly acquaintances) from More...
Drenched in the ethnic culture of an Italian-American heritage, burdened with the "Catholic Guilt" of her childhood and surrounded by family and friends (and some not so friendly acquaintances) from More...
Mar 12, 2009
Lychee
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Not my favorite by this author. Pretty lukewarm story imho. Can't quite put my finger on what's missing. Not sure if it's because I'm concurrently reading an Elizabeth George mystery.
One thing I do like is how the author features different main characters from a set of characters that revolve around a women-owned Philly law office. In particular the protagonist from her earlier novels is now often portrayed as the boss of the more recent novels. And there is often a bit of tensi More...
One thing I do like is how the author features different main characters from a set of characters that revolve around a women-owned Philly law office. In particular the protagonist from her earlier novels is now often portrayed as the boss of the more recent novels. And there is often a bit of tensi More...
Apr 30, 2010
Malia
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I listened to an audiobook version of this--an okay mystery made very good by an excellent reader. If you like to listen to books as well as read them (great for driving/housecleaning/mindless chores- hey! another way to get books into my day!) then listen to anything read by Barbara Rosenblat. In Lady Killer she has loads of fun with all the South Philly accents-men, women, children--angry, laughing, sarcastic--her reading nailed the emotions as well as the accents. Midway through the story I w
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Jul 13, 2009
Jess
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I liked this book and I thought that the mystery surrounding Trish disappearing was very interesting.
I didn't realize that this was a series of books, well not a series but that characters are recurring. I'll have to go back and see if I missed any that had Mary in it.
The only issue I had was some of the language. Three of the characters were supposed to sound "ghetto" I guess is the word I'm looking for. And sometimes Mary started talking like that. I found it More...
I didn't realize that this was a series of books, well not a series but that characters are recurring. I'll have to go back and see if I missed any that had Mary in it.
The only issue I had was some of the language. Three of the characters were supposed to sound "ghetto" I guess is the word I'm looking for. And sometimes Mary started talking like that. I found it More...
Aug 14, 2009
Sandra
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Scottoline is a new author for me and it was great fun reading this book. I'm a native Californian who visits in the Philadelphia area frequently and this will book is wonderful in descriptions of what I have observed in the people there who seem a great mix of really tough and bright and warm but in a way that is very different from California. I loved the "tension" between the mean and the nerdy girls of high school and the "growth" in understanding and appreciation in the
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Jun 10, 2010
Tracie
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I checked out this book on cd mainly because it was read by Barbara Rosenblat. But even her superb reading could not rescue this story from the plodding pace. My 27 year old daughter kept pleading with me to skip some tracks so we could hopefully get to the good stuff. Which finally happened in the last 3 cds--both the skipping, and the finally getting to the good stuff. There were many funny moments along the way, and several "life" points to ponder, but there is no way I would ha
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Oct 19, 2009
Marty
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The second book by Lisa Scottoline that I have read, the two most recent entries in the Rosato & Associates series after she too a five year break from that series (this according to the acknowledgements at the end of the book). I enjoyed this one a lot. Although it still has occasional oddball characters and scenes, it is more of a conventional mystery and the lead character, Mary DiNunzio, is less likely stray into Stephanie Plum-like behavior.
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Liked it and I'll be looking for oth More...
Jul 22, 2009
Lindsay
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so my dad listens to audiobooks because he's dyslexic and he travels a lot. as a result, he's the best-read person i know who almost never picks up an actual paper book. we were driving between oklahoma city and nashville last week when we started this potboiler about lawyers and petty mobsters in south philly. i tried to ignore the book and read my own, but i got sucked in anyway. :) fun read, good pacing, if formulaic. don't know if i'd pick up another book by the same author, but it was
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Dec 12, 2011
Brenda
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Mary DiNunzio, or Mare to her family and friends, is a lawyer with Rosato & Associates, with a very busy working life, a huge number of clients who love her, but no social life. When Trish Gambone turns up in her office, upset and crying, terrified, Mary was shocked! Trish was a member of the 'Mean Girls' from high school, and they tormented Mary, called her names, she didn't like them at all....so why was Trish in her office, NEEDING HER HELP!
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Apr 11, 2010
Marti
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It is great to have the law firm of Bennie Rosato back! This book features Mary DiNunzio with the others in short apearances. Her nemesis from high school shows up, fearing for her life. Trish's live-in boyfriend is none other than Bobby, the football player she tutored in Latin, who got her pregnant so that she had an abortion. It's an exciting tale as Mary tries to do right by her client. Along the way she meets a new man, Anthony, whose mother is convinced that he is gay.
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Jul 01, 2009
Teresa in Ohio
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Rating 3.25, Scottoline writes a series about a law firm with all female lawyers. In her earlier books I felt there was more law and less female drama. In this installment Mary is the central character. She is Italian and believes in representing the neighborhood because that is where she grew up and has history. Trish who was a mean girl comes to Mary seeking help from her. Mary who still has emotional distress from the mean girls picking on her in catholic school and making her life misera
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Aug 31, 2009
Nicole
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I haven't read a Scottoline for a while and I really enjoyed this one. She went back to her original characters and that was fun. Her wit and one-liners are just awesome. I love the humor that's on so many pages. It's a very fast-paced book and I was able to read it over the weekend. There wasn't any language as an issue in this book, which was very nice (although I think there might be in some of her earlier books, I've forgotten). There are a few references to earlier novels with the main char
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Nov 01, 2008
Susan
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Sounded and looked like it could be a little on the juicy side but daughter got it as a review copy when she worked at the bookstore so since it's what's left in the house and isn't something depressing about cancer, it was a worth a shot.
Based in Philadelphia, Mary's a lawyer at a small firm and handles mainly slip and fall cases, contractor disputes, and the kind of minor law suits that come with the territory of a neighborhood lawyer who was born and raised in the part of town in More...
Based in Philadelphia, Mary's a lawyer at a small firm and handles mainly slip and fall cases, contractor disputes, and the kind of minor law suits that come with the territory of a neighborhood lawyer who was born and raised in the part of town in More...
Jun 26, 2008
Samantha
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I love that Lisa Scottoline brought Bennie, Anne, Judi and Mary back in this book. They have been gone for 5 years. Ms. Scottoline lost her father and stated in several interviews that she just didn't know if she could go back to writing about her main characters. She's has completed several wonderful stand alone books but this is her bread and butter. I'm not sure if it's where I've missed the crew so bad or if the book is just very good. I enjoyed the the mystery and the interaction of the cha
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Dec 26, 2010
DW
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I'm sorry but I did not like the style in which this book was written at all. I finished it as a matter of OCD.
I thought the antagonists were annoying (entirely plausible in a fiction novel), but I thought the main character/protagonist was annoying too for allowing herself to be badgered and manipulated by someone for whom she owed reasonably nothing, and for feeling bad when she couldn't 'give more of herself'. Grrr.
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I thought the antagonists were annoying (entirely plausible in a fiction novel), but I thought the main character/protagonist was annoying too for allowing herself to be badgered and manipulated by someone for whom she owed reasonably nothing, and for feeling bad when she couldn't 'give more of herself'. Grrr.
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