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Lisa Scottoline has garnered legions of fans with highly entertaining legal thrillers that offer a trademark ... read full description
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Jun 01, 2011
Antof9
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I was just sort of "meh" on this one. There was a murder, there was a mistaken identity, there was some crazy stalker action .... but this one wasn't as strong as some of the Scottolines I've read. I did like the friendship aspect, and the Lucille Ball asides were kind of cute, but ... it was basically just a break.
In fairness, one of the Goodreads reviews I skimmed when I added this to my list mentioned how this one was brand-crazy, and that reviewer was right. Anywhere t More...
In fairness, one of the Goodreads reviews I skimmed when I added this to my list mentioned how this one was brand-crazy, and that reviewer was right. Anywhere t More...
Mar 17, 2011
Beth
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Lisa Scottoline’s COURTING TROUBLE is a novel she wrote back in 2002, a continuation of her series about an all-female law firm. It had seemed to me that Scottoline likes to present legal dilemmas, and I said so when I reviewed another of the books in this series. But COURTING TROUBLE doesn’t do that to the extent those other books did. While there is a legal dilemma, a sexual harassment case, that seems to be just a sideline to the real action: one of the law firm’s newer associates’ life is be
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Jul 23, 2010
Jerry
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Ninth Outing disappoints with skimpy suspense, silly action...
We've said before that Lisa Scottoline seems to be improving with each new book. Her last, the "Vendetta Defense", featured a good story, suspenseful courtroom scenes, and humorous dialogue. Unfortunately, we seem to have taken a step backward with "Courting Trouble".
The all-female, Philadelphia law firm of (Ms) Bennie Rosato is back, and the supporting cast of Bennie, Mary, and Judy, al More...
We've said before that Lisa Scottoline seems to be improving with each new book. Her last, the "Vendetta Defense", featured a good story, suspenseful courtroom scenes, and humorous dialogue. Unfortunately, we seem to have taken a step backward with "Courting Trouble".
The all-female, Philadelphia law firm of (Ms) Bennie Rosato is back, and the supporting cast of Bennie, Mary, and Judy, al More...
Jul 11, 2010
Crystal Starr Light
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After reading the terrible 1st to Die by James Patterson and being exceedingly disappointed, I picked up another mystery, hoping this one would have good characters and a good plot.
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Anne Murphy is a lawyer for an all-female firm who is defending a CEO friend who is accused of sexual harassment. Anne goes to the coast for a break to study her case when she sees in the newspaper she is dead. She rushes back to Philadelphia to find her murderer before he/she realizes that she did More...
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Anne Murphy is a lawyer for an all-female firm who is defending a CEO friend who is accused of sexual harassment. Anne goes to the coast for a break to study her case when she sees in the newspaper she is dead. She rushes back to Philadelphia to find her murderer before he/she realizes that she did More...
Apr 19, 2009
Michelle
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This was the first Lisa Scottoline book I ever read. I've since gone on to read a few other, earlier ones, and now I have to wonder what the heck happened between those and this one?! Her earlier books are really good, and I'm not even a big mystery fan. This was a departure from her usual talent in so many ways. There were several problems with this book, many of which have been thoroughly discussed here, so I'll focus on the one that bothered me the most: the constant, almost every-other-page
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Jul 21, 2010
Andrea
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Another by Lisa Scottoline featuring the all-women law firm headed by Bennie Rosato. Anne Murphy, met previously in The Vendetta Defense, is defending a businessman about to take his company public from a sexual harassment suit. Abruptly she decides to take an impropmtu 4th of July weekend at the Jersey shore, where the Saturday news papers announce her murder in Philadelphia the previous evening. A case of mistaken identity, the cat-sitter resembles her closely, especially after two blasts of
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Jul 08, 2009
Annabelle
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A piece of clichéd trash. Can’t believe it was a New York Times bestseller, but I have to say I did finish it and was happy when Anne, a new attorney with the women Philadelphia law firm, Rosato and Associates. She is representing a dot.com executive from a sexual harassment when a her cat sitter who happens to look like Anne at her home. Anne pretends like it to flush out her former stalker just released from prison. Scottoline is inventive in intertwining the two subplots and moving the pro
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Dec 04, 2007
Angie
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To find out in the newspaper that you are dead when you just wanted to get away for the weekend. Not fun. Hiding and playing dead to find her killer keep thebook interesting. I did find quite a few unbelievable circumstances but otherwise a good read.
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May 25, 2010
Vanessa
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This author gets good reviews from some respectable newspapers so perhaps I just picked the bad apple from her collection. A few years ago when I had injured my knee, I bought a stack of light reading from the book store. I soon realized I didn't want something this light.
The story involves an attorney with a mysterious past being mistaken for dead. And she's in love with the DA. Oh, and he's totally in love with her even though they've never conversed outside of the courtroom. Sque More...
The story involves an attorney with a mysterious past being mistaken for dead. And she's in love with the DA. Oh, and he's totally in love with her even though they've never conversed outside of the courtroom. Sque More...
Jun 26, 2011
J
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Anne Murphy, protagonist, is a tall Scottoline heroine. (They're never of middling height.)
You think she's just impossibly gorgeous, which works only to her advantage in work and personal life.
But nooo, she's so pretty she doesn't have a boyfriend; also has female atty. peers who envy and dislike her; and becomes a murder target for a psycho ex-boyfriend stalker (the reader thinks.) To boot, Anne turns out to have sympathy-inducing psychic wounds that predate the boyfriend ( More...
You think she's just impossibly gorgeous, which works only to her advantage in work and personal life.
But nooo, she's so pretty she doesn't have a boyfriend; also has female atty. peers who envy and dislike her; and becomes a murder target for a psycho ex-boyfriend stalker (the reader thinks.) To boot, Anne turns out to have sympathy-inducing psychic wounds that predate the boyfriend ( More...
Apr 28, 2011
Ashley
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Anne Murphy, a lawyer working at Rosata & Associates in Philly, has decided to start out her 4th of July weekend with a vacation to the Jersey Shore by herself. She leaves her lovely cat, Mel, at her apartment who is being watched over by a new "friend" from Anne's gym, Willa.
As she is beginning her vacation at the beach, Anne happens to glance at a newspaper and finds the headlines are reporting her murder. Obviously, she was not murdered, which means that the person who
May 19, 2010
Claire
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Anne Murphy is a lawyer trying a sexual harrassment suit for an old college buddy, Gil. Anne takes off to the Jersey shore for the 4th of July weekend and her cat-sitter is murdered and mistaken for Anne. Anne partners up with her fellow lawyer ladies to track down her potential killer, former stalker Kevin. While being "dead," Anne discovers secrets about Gil, her opposing counsel and love interest, Matt, as well as her new colleague girlfriends along the way.
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Sep 08, 2010
Debbie
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Scottoline's writing in not the sophisticated style of PD James or Elizabeth George, Scottoline's style is more like a grown-up Nancy Drew. The lawyers, all women, at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato and Associates run off helter-skelter attempting to solve a case. This novel heavily relies on I Love Lucy episodes for setting. The central characters are all women, and petty situations dominate the story. A stalker is killed, but he is not even responsible for the murder. Two other men ar
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Jun 10, 2009
Mindy
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Lisa Scottoline is a great read if you enjoy court rooms and end of chapter cliff hangers. Her stories are informative and witty as well as a joy to read. They primarily center around Bennie Rosato's all women law firm and the cases they take on. Bennie and her attorneys usually participate in each book but they all take turns as the "star of the show." Lisa evidently tends to write each story as it plays out to her...reasonably unplanned.....which makes them read fresh and rather spo
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Mar 07, 2008
Colleen
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This is the first book I read from this author's series. I enjoyed the references to Philadelphia and it kept my attention.
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Apr 09, 2010
J
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Okay, it started out like a basic no great but not bad female lead murder mystery story. Then a little more than 1/2 way through, there is a scene where this guy co-worker looks at the lead lady and is so happy to see her, hugs her and says "I love you!" meaning romantically of course. How the heck can you fall in love if you haven't even been dating and only seen each other at work? I mean, come on, I understand it with teenagers, but after that..... I just can't finish a book that
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Feb 13, 2011
Scott
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Can I confess something? I read a chick book. :)
This book was about a lawyer named Anne Murphy who leaves town for a couple of days only to see her own obituary in the newspaper. The rest is a mystery as she figures out who really died, who killed her and what it all means for her.
Enjoying little read. Not incredibly enthralling, but nothing stark raving bad either. There were tiresome sections whose only purpose seemed to be to shout out "behold, this is a strong More...
This book was about a lawyer named Anne Murphy who leaves town for a couple of days only to see her own obituary in the newspaper. The rest is a mystery as she figures out who really died, who killed her and what it all means for her.
Enjoying little read. Not incredibly enthralling, but nothing stark raving bad either. There were tiresome sections whose only purpose seemed to be to shout out "behold, this is a strong More...
Aug 04, 2011
Kim
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I wanted to like this book more than I did. This was my first Lisa Scottoline novel, and I was disappointed. I've heard Scottoline described as the female John Grisham, but this book didn't live up to that comparison. It wasn't as intelligent or hard-hitting as I had hoped. The plot centers around a gorgeous red head with a shoe fetish who is being stalked by a psycho. The action was paced nicely and it was appropriately suspenseful, but I couldn't shake the feeling that I was reading a chick li
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Jul 29, 2008
JBradford
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"Anne Murphy thought she'd put her unhappy past a continent behind her when she joined Philadelphia attorney Bennie Rosato's all-woman law firm. Then a friend who's housesitting for Anne is murdered in what's clearly a case of mistaken identity, and Anne realizes that the past has caught up with her and that the only way to outrun it is to catch the killer before he realizes that she's still alive. But how can Anne play dead with a high-profile case just days away from starting? The only wa
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Nov 05, 2009
Laurel
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This is crime-flavored literary cotton candy, made with high-quality sugarfloss. Scottoline does a great job of making it easy to empathize with a heroine who, if you met her in real life and couldn't get inside her head, you'd just want to smack. Fun little touches abound, such as her (the heroine's) obsession with I Love Lucy, her notes to self, her cat, and plenty of geographical and pop-culture references. I couldn't have predicted the ending.
Apr 05, 2010
Terri
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This is a great "girl" thriller. The author is a former trial lawyer that pays attention to the details of lip gloss, hair color, business suits, and shoes. A beautiful read headed lawyer reads about her own death and then sets out to get the killer. Caution: there is a little gore at the crime scene, the romance does cross LDS standards and there are a few bad words. But overall it is a quick and thrilling read.
Dec 16, 2009
I heard alot of good reviews for Lisa Scottoline, especially her newest title, Daddy's Girl. So, when my library did not yet have Daddy's Girl available, I did the next best thing, and checked out another book by Scottoline.
This was a good title--it entertained me through a plane ride to Montana and back, and the lay-over from hell in Minneapolis. However, I wouldn't label it a must-read. While it was good and kept my attention (which is hard--I've been known to have no mercy an More...
This was a good title--it entertained me through a plane ride to Montana and back, and the lay-over from hell in Minneapolis. However, I wouldn't label it a must-read. While it was good and kept my attention (which is hard--I've been known to have no mercy an More...
May 11, 2011
Edie
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I'm reading the series in order and this one was a big disappointment. I know, it's FICTION, but even so I cringe when I read about a supposedly strong woman with a whole lot of time spent on the gun range becoming a blithering idiot when push came to shove. The rest of the time she was a cliche for those gals in the horror movies that don't have enough sense to NOT go in that basement to see what that noise was. As for my favorite character in the series, Bennie, if she hadn't of fired her for
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Apr 28, 2011
Lain
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The continuing theme of stalkers in Scottoline's books wouldn't bother me so much if I hadn't read them so close together... but still, I really enjoyed this book and was quite surprised at some of the twists and turns. I had read some of the later Rosato and Associates books first, so it's fun to get the back story on Anne Murphy. I want her shoes!
Jun 04, 2010
Andrea
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THE STORY IS ABOUT AN ATTORNEY WHO IS MIS IDENTIFIED AS A SHOOTING VICTIM. HER NAME IS ANN - AND SHE HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN STOCKED AND INJURED, SO SHE GOES INTO HIDING TO SEE IF HER STOCKER WAS AFTER HER AGAIN.
SHE TELLS HER LAW FIRM AND MAJOR CLIENT THAT SHE IS ALIVE AND CONTINUES TO WORK HER CASE.
THE PLOT IS MUDDY AND NOT ONE OF MS. SCOTTOLINE'S BEST.
SHE TELLS HER LAW FIRM AND MAJOR CLIENT THAT SHE IS ALIVE AND CONTINUES TO WORK HER CASE.
THE PLOT IS MUDDY AND NOT ONE OF MS. SCOTTOLINE'S BEST.
Jan 30, 2010
Cathy
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I'd give this a 2.5 if I could - the narration was very good, but the story itself pretty weak. I've enjoyed earlier books in this series but found this one tough to get through and if I'd been reading the book rather than listening to it, I might have set it aside. I found myself saying "you moron" over and over to the CD as the protagonist did one idiotic thing after another. And this woman is a lawyer representing other people's interests? She exercises such poor judgment in her
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Apr 23, 2010
Charly
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Scottoline is an interesting author who writes mystery with her tongue planted squarely in her cheek. While the mystery unfolds a team of female lawyers usually take some aspect of the law into their own hands with humorous and usually plot relevant results.
She is always fun and relatively light read even if the plot line is not.
She is always fun and relatively light read even if the plot line is not.
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May 16, 2011
Jean
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Great suspense. Grabbed me from the beginning. Anne is the newest member of the firm and as we meet her she is in the courtroom winning. Then she decides to take a last minute getaway for the 4th of July weekend. The next day she sees herself on the front page of the paper as a murder victim. Pace never lets up the entire book.
May 21, 2010
Kirsten
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Liked some parts, appreciated the humor in some parts, kinda rolled my eyes at other parts...maybe more of a 2.5 but overall an enjoyable read, not a drudgery to get through. Read it cuz I wanted to read a Scottoline book and I'll try some more. I don't know how this one stacks up against others that she has written.
Jul 31, 2011
Tracy
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I love any book read by Barbara Rosenblat! She is the best.......she really gets into the characters and their voices. She makes it fun to listen to a book. She is my favorite reader! This was a great murder mystery with a sense of humor and a great female lead. I really had a fun time listening to it!
