Jeffery Deaver, Contribution by, Lisa Scottoline, Author, Lee Child, Author and others, read by Alfred Molina. Brilliance Audio $29.95 (
, unabridged, six CDs, 6 hrs., $29.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-4233-7702-3
, unabridged, six CDs, 6 hrs., $29.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-4233-7702-3
With a concept and characters created by Jeffery Deaver, 15 writers were assigned one chapter apiece to produce a unified novel. The result is a suspenseful, action-packed international thriller filled with plenty of unexpected twists and turns....
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Edited by Andrew F. Gulli and Lamia J. Gulli. S&S/Touchstone, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4516-0737-6
Twenty-six of the best-known names in the business—including Jeffery Deaver, Faye Kellerman, Alexander McCall Smith, Kathy Reichs, Thomas H. Cook, and Lisa Scottoline—contribute chapters to this modestly entertaining "who-really-done-it." In 2000,...
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Edited by Lee Child. Simon & Schuster, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4159-1
Each of the 11 collaborative tales in this stellar sequel to the International Thriller Writers’ anthology FaceOff (2014) pairs a top-rank female thriller writer with a male counterpart. Sandra Brown’s Lee Coburn and C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett send...
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Lisa Scottoline. St. Martin's, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-01011-7
Bestseller Scottoline (Keep Quiet) casts an unflinching eye on the damaged world of sociopaths in this exciting page-turner. The personal life of Dr. Eric Parrish, chief of the psychiatric unit at Havemeyer General Hospital in Philadelphia's suburbs,
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Lisa Scottoline. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-02770-2
When Iris Juarez, an undocumented immigrant, turns up dead in her car in bestseller Scottoline’s rewarding 13th Rosato & Associates novel (after 2013’s Accused), lawyer Judy Carrier winds up investigating, since Iris was the best friend of Judy’s...
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Lisa Scottoline. St. Martin's, $27.99%C2%A0(352 pages) ISBN 978-1-250-01009-4
The latest standalone novel from New York Times best-selling author Scottoline explores the relationship between father and son in the aftermath of a deadly hit and run. Jake Buckman worries that he can't compete with girls, Facebook and Jay-Z for...
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Lisa Scottoline. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-02765-8
Mary DiNunzio faces two daunting changes in bestseller Scottoline’s intriguing 12th novel featuring the all-woman Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates (after 2010’s Think Twice): she has become a partner in the firm, which affects her...
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Lisa Scottoline. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-02793-1
Edgar-winner Scottoline’s lackluster 14th Rosato and DiNunzio novel (after 2014’s Betrayed) focuses on law firm–founder Bennie Rosato. In 2002, a panic-stricken father from Mountaintop, Pa., hires the Philadelphia lawyer to appeal his 12-year-old...
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Lisa Scottoline. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-01007-0
This stand-alone from Scottoline (Come Home) effectively tugs at the emotions even as it verges on the melodramatic. Mike Scanlon, a reservist in the Army Medical Corps serving in Afghanistan, is allowed to return for one week to his suburban...
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Lisa Scottoline, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-018514-5
New York Times
bestseller Scottoline's cast of beautiful female lawyers at Philadelphia's Rosato & Associates is augmented by red-headed bombshell Anne Murphy, a woman with a secret past, who's trying to make a go of it in a new city.
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Lisa Scottoline. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-38082-3
Complex family dynamics and carefully concealed secrets drive this gripping stand-alone from Edgar-winner Scottoline (Save Me). Jill Farrow, a Philadelphia pediatrician, and her teenage daughter, Megan, live with Jill’s calm and forbearing fiancé,...
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Lisa Scottoline, read by George Newbern. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-5241-8
At the start of bestseller Scottoline’s standalone thriller, Dr. Eric Parish, the head of the psychiatric unit at Havemeyer General Hospital in suburban Philadelphia, is experiencing a professional high and a personal low. His team’s psychiatry...
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Lisa Scottoline. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-01013-1
Christine and Marcus Nilsson, the Connecticut couple at the heart of this uneven standalone from bestseller Scottoline (Every Fifteen Minutes), have decided to use a sperm-bank donor after three years struggling to have a baby. No. 3319’s identity...
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Lisa Scottoline. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-09962-4
In bestseller Scottoline’s outstanding 15th Rosato & DiNunzio novel (after 2015’s Corrupted), Mary DiNunzio, a partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & DiNunzio, takes on a heartbreaking case involving a dyslexic fifth grader, Patrick O’Brien
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Lisa Scottoline. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-09956-3
ATF agent Curt Abbott goes undercover as high school baseball coach Chris Brennan in this entertaining thriller from bestseller Scottoline (Most Wanted). He targets three teenage boys in his investigation of a domestic terrorism plot: wealthy,...
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Lisa Scottoline. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-09971-6
Edgar-winner Scottoline highlights the perils of our health care system in her fast-paced, heart-tugging fifth Rosato & DiNunzio novel (after 2016’s Damaged). Simon Pensiera, an old family friend of Philadelphia lawyer Mary DiNunzio, needs her help.
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Lisa Scottoline. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-09965-5
In this nail-biting domestic thriller from Scottoline (One Perfect Lie), prominent Pennsylvania pediatric allergist Noah Alderman, a widower, finds love again with Maggie Ippolitti. She adores his son, and they have a happy life. But everything...
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Lisa Scottoline. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-09959-4
In bestseller Scottoline’s thought-provoking sixth Rosato & DiNunzio novel (after 2017’s Exposed), three men complain to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission that lawyers Bennie Rosato, Mary DiNunzio, and Judy Carrier declined to hire them...
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Lisa Scottoline, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (390p) ISBN 978-0-06-018507-7
Is it murder or simply eye-for-an-eye justice if you kill someone who has killed members of your family? That moral conundrum lies at the heart of Scottoline's (Moment of Truth; Mistaken Identity) latest legal yarn, which gives top billing to yet...
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Lisa Scottoline, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-051493-8
Another bestseller is on the docket for Scottoline (Courting Trouble; Rough Justice; The Vendetta Defense), with a new legal caper featuring the lady lawyers of series heroine Bennie Rosato's Philadelphia law firm, Rosato and Associates. This...
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Lisa Scottoline, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (358p) ISBN 978-0-06-051495-2
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KILLER SMILE
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Lisa Scottoline, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-074288-1
Scottoline's 12th novel was inspired by a real-life jury trial for crack-cocaine trafficking of members of one of the most violent gangs in Philadelphia history (in her acknowledgments, the former trial lawyer admits she watches cases like these
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Lisa Scottoline, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-074290-4
Rookie federal judge Cate Fante's early days on the Philadelphia bench rapidly descend into nightmare in this compelling stand-alone legal thriller from bestseller Scottoline (Devil's Corner
). Fante is the presiding judge in an intellectual
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Lisa Scottoline, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-083314-5
The undistinguished academic career of Natalie "Nat" Greco, a mousy and naïve law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, takes an unexpected turn at the start of this less than compelling legal thriller from bestseller Scottoline (
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Lisa Scottoline, Author . Harper $25.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-06-083320-6
Philadelphia attorney Mary DiNunzio, last seen in Killer Smile
(2004), agrees to help her high school nemesis, Trish Gambone, at the start of this less than convincing thriller from bestseller Scottoline. Trish, whom Mary used to regard as “th
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Bestseller Scottoline (Lady Killer
) scores another bull’s-eye with this terrifying thriller about an adoptive parent’s worst fear—the threat of an undisclosed illegality overturning an adoption. The age-progressed picture of an...
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Lisa Scottoline, Author . St. Martin's $21.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-58748-2
Brief, punchy slices of daily life originally published in her Philadelphia Inquirer
column allow novelist Scottoline (Everywhere That Mary Went
) to dish on men, mothers, panty lines and, especially, dogs. Somewhere in her mid-50s, twice divorced (
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Lisa Scottoline, Author St. Martin’s $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-38075-5
Bestseller Scottoline’s 13th novel centered on the all-female Philadelphia law firm headed by Bennie Rosato (after Lady Killer
) offers contrived situations and paper-thin characters on top of a premise that strains credibility. After Bennie
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Lisa Scottoline, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-018747-7
Double jeopardy is more than just a legal term in this taut and smart courtroom drama by Edgar Award winner Scottoline. Bennie Rosato, the irrepressible head of an all-female Philadelphia law firm, moves to center stage after playing a supporting...
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Lisa Scottoline, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (355p) ISBN 978-0-06-019609-7
A bullet-proof premise distinguishes this expert crime thriller from Scottoline (Mistaken Identity): handsome, successful estates lawyer Jack Newlin frames himself for the murder of his heiress wife in order to shield the real killer, their 16-year-o
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Lisa Scottoline, St. Martin's, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-38078-6
At the start of this gut-wrenching stand-alone from bestseller Scottoline (Think Twice), an explosion rips through the nearly empty cafeteria of Reesburgh (Pa.) Elementary School. Lunch mother Rose McKenna leads two girls to safety before racing to...
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Lisa Scottoline, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-017658-7
The heroine of Scottoline's rambunctious fourth legal thriller (after Running from the Law) may change the way readers think about lawyers. Benedetta (""Bennie"") Rosato, who narrates, is a ravishing six-foot blonde, one of two partners in a...
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Lisa Scottoline, Author HarperTorch $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-104293-5
This tale of corporate intrigue centers on Mary DiNunzio, a lawyer on the partner track at one of Philadelphia's top law firms, and her secret admirer/stalker. Mary, stressed by nature of her occupation, first shrugs off silent phone calls to her...
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Lisa Scottoline, Author HarperTorch $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-104294-2
Philadelphia lawyer Grace Rossi is a single mother trying to make ends meet by working part-time for the handsome Judge Armen Gregorian in the federal appeals court. Although he is by all accounts happily married, many women carry a torch for him....
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Lisa Scottoline, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (232p) ISBN 978-0-06-017659-4
Scottoline's hardcover debut is a fast-paced, fast-talking legal thriller starring manipulative Philadelphia lawyer Rita Morrone, who is not above wearing black and wiping a nonexistent tear from her eye to advance her case in front of a jury. Rita,
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Lisa Scottoline, Author HarperCollins $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-018746-0
Moving from crime fiction to the legal thriller, Edgar Award winner Scottoline (Final Appeal) fashions a stylish blend of wit and suspense. The focus of the narrative is the conclusion of a high-profile murder trial in Philadelphia. Slumlord Elliot...
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Lisa Scottoline, Author HarperTorch $7.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-109411-8
A lawyer defending a judge against a sexual harassment suit gets more than she bargained for when the judge's accuser is murdered. (Nov.)
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Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Scottoline Serritella, St. Martin's, $22.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-66229-5
Scottoline, a single mom and author of 17 New York Times bestselling novels, also writes for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where her "Chick Wit" column appears on Sundays and is occasionally written by her daughter Francesca. It has also served as...
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Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella. St. Martin’s, $21.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-05994-9
Scottoline, the prolific and bestselling author of two dozen novels, and her daughter, Serritella (with whom she writes a weekly column for the Philadelphia Inquirer), pile plenty of laughs and a few tears into the latest volume in their humor...
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Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-65163-3
Bestselling author Scottoline and up-and-comer Serritella are mother and daughter as well as BFFs—most of the time. In this third collection of essays based on their weekly “Chick Lit” column for the Philadelphia Inquirer, the duo chat about what it’
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Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella. St. Martin’s, $21.99 (324p) ISBN 978-1-250-05995-6
Scottoline, a prolific and bestselling thriller author, is joined again by her daughter, Serritella (the two write a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer called “Chick Wit”), for this warm and engaging seventh volume in their series. The duo discuss
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Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella. St. Martin’s, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-16305-9
Novelist Scottoline (After Anna, etc.) and daughter Serritella team up for the eighth in a series of entertaining mother-daughter humor books, combining entries in their “Chick Wit” column for the Philadelphia Inquirer and new material. The authors...
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Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-31264-008-8
The witty and warm mother-daughter team are back with their third collection of “Chick Wit” columns they write for the Philadelphia Inquirer. New York Times bestselling author Lisa is the 56-year-old single mom of Francesca, a 25-year-old aspiring...
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Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella, read by the authors. Macmillan Audio, , unabridged, six CDs, 6.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-3293-9
This mother-daughter literary team quip their way through life’s ups and downs with witty, wisecracking humor in a series of delightfully random vignettes. Scottoline declares that “someone has to write about the simple things in life,” while...
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Edited by Lisa Scottoline. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, $14.95 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-544-03460-0
Twenty stories—remarkable in their diversity—comprise this 17th installment of Penzler's annual anthology of the best American mystery stories. The plots and settings are more varied than a reader might expect, but what surprises is how literary...
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Lisa Scottoline, Author, Mary Stuart Masterson, Read by , read by Mary Stuart Masterson. Macmillan $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0658-9
Single mother and journalist Ellen Gleeson is unsettled by a “Have You Seen This Child?” flyer that features a child disconcertingly similar to her adopted son. Curiosity compels her to investigate further, and as evidence spirals closer
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Lisa Scottoline, Author, Barbara Rosenblat, Read by , read by Barbara Rosenblat. HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-122715-8
Scottoline’s breathless new thriller doesn’t make it easy for a female reader. The male-heavy cast of characters, including heroine Natalie “Nat” Greco’s overly protective daddy and her sports crazy brother, have...
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Lisa Scottoline, Author, Barbara Rosenblat, Read by , read by Barbara Rosenblat. HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-089817-5
As a veteran reader of several Scottoline audios (including Moment of Truth
and Devil's Corner
), Rosenblat is completely at home with the author's characters and style. She gives the listener a clear sense of newly appointed Federal Judge...
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Lisa Scottoline, Author, Barbara Rosenblat, Performed by , read by Barbara Rosenblat. HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-145299-4
Scottoline's latest thriller presents a successful businesswoman's journey to confront her past, and Rosenblat draws upon her theatrical experience to create a fun listening experience. With a variety of tones and dialects on her palette,...
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Lisa Scottoline, read by Rebecca Lowman. Macmillan Audio, , unabridged, 11 CDs, 13.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-7870-8
In Edgar-winner Scottoline’s 15th Rosato & DiNunzio novel, the Philadelphia law firm’s Mary DiNunzio takes over the novel, getting ensnared and emotionally involved in the defense of Patrick O’Brien, a 10-year-old accused of attacking a teacher with
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Lisa Scottoline. Putnam, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-53964-3
During the summer of 1999, in an idyllic suburban housing development near the Pennsylvania Turnpike, Allie Garvey and three teenage friends play a prank—a game of Russian Roulette with an empty gun—that turns deadly in this page-turner from...
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Lisa Scottoline. Putnam, $28 (480p) ISBN 978-0-525-53976-6
Scottoline’s admirable foray into historical fiction (after her Rosato & Associates series) visits pre-WWII Italy during Mussolini’s rise to power as three teenage friends navigate a love triangle. Elisabetta D’Orfeo works at a restaurant to support
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Lisa Scottoline. Putnam, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-53967-4
At the outset of this heart-wrenching novel from bestseller Scottoline (Eternal), Jason and Lucinda Bennett, while driving home to Philadelphia with their son, his older sister, 15-year-old Allison, and their dog, are forced to stop by two men in a...
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Lisa Scottoline. Putnam, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-0-525-53980-3
Scottoline (Eternal) delves into the origins of the Sicilian Mafia with the intriguing story of a kidnapping. In early 19th-century Palermo, five-year-old Dante Michangeli is abducted from his wealthy family and left in a madhouse. Meanwhile,...
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Lisa Scottoline. Putnam, $29.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-525-53970-4
A wealthy Philadelphia family’s dysfunction threatens to undo them in the engrossing latest from Scottoline (What Happened to the Bennetts). Married attorneys Paul and Marie Devlin work beside their two eldest children and fellow lawyers, John and...
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