I usually enjoy Lisa Scottoline's books, but the character of Mary, supposedly a lawyer, must have taken a stupid and annoying drug because she just got deeper and deeper into idiot town as the book dragged on. Mary became so strident and annoying that I wanted to crawl inside my MP3 and shoot her to put her out of her misery. Mary develops an obsession (putting it lightly) with a man whose estate is their client. An Italian immigrant, his name was Amadeo Brandolini and he died in 1942. Ah – Mah – Day - Oh (day..a..a..O!) is Mary’s clarion call throughout the book. She becomes worse than any stalker in tracking the long deceased man. People around her, including the reader, do not understand her fixation. I would have stopped listening, but I was driving and doing other stuff; it was easier to keep listening. As I listened I marveled that Mary was not fired or thrown in jail. She breaks multiple laws in her pursuit. Mary also breaches every common courtesy, including giving the wife of a dying man the bum’s rush at the door and tears up the stairs to talk to the dying man. Mary later sneaks into the house by posing as a “funeral planner.” In all my years of reading detective/mysteries, I don’t think I have ever known a character to pull as many moronic stunts as did Mary in this book. What does Mary learn at the end? Who cares? I don’t want to encounter this Mary in a book again for a long time.