Legal Tender - Lisa Scottoline
What a page turner - Lisa kept the story line going throughout and I didn't want to put the book down.
Book Cover: Lisa Scottoline returns to the courtroom with a taut and intriguing legal thriller where the line between lawyer and client vanishes - and the search for justice turns into a fight to the death.
Benedetta "Bennie" Rosato may be tall, blond and built to last, but she's no sucker for a man in uniform. She's a maverick laywer who prosecutes police misconduct and excessive-force cases, and business at her firm of Rosato & Biscardi has never been better.
Bennie's latest client is Bill Kleeb, an activist roughed up by police during a demonstration at a pharmaceutical company, Furstman Dunn. It's an open and shut case of police brutality until Kleeb confesses to Bennie that the protests are only part of the story. Angered at Furstman Dunn, Kleeb's group plans a far more violent punishment for the company president.
Then without warning, a savage murder tears Rosato & BIscardi apart. All the evidence points to Bennie, who has motive aplenty and unconfirmable alibi. Her world turns upside down as the lawyer becomes the client and the cops she once prosecuted are now after her - with a vengeance. To prove her innocence, Bennie probes deep into the murder. Her only ally is her lawyer, Grady Wells - until she discovers secret meetings that make her suspect even him. Just as she closes in on the killer, another murder takes place and Bennie finds herself indicted for a double homicide - a crime that is punishable by death.
Bennie runs for her life, a fugitive armed only with her wits and her courage. She'll find the real killer. Or die trying.
As I said, Lisa keeps you turning page after page and not wanting to put the book down. A good mystery writer, sometimes "hokey" and unbelievable stunts, but fast moving. Good author for a quick read.
Finished: June 24, 2011
Book Cover: Lisa Scottoline returns to the courtroom with a taut and intriguing legal thriller where the line between lawyer and client vanishes - and the search for justice turns into a fight to the death.
Benedetta "Bennie" Rosato may be tall, blond and built to last, but she's no sucker for a man in uniform. She's a maverick laywer who prosecutes police misconduct and excessive-force cases, and business at her firm of Rosato & Biscardi has never been better.
Bennie's latest client is Bill Kleeb, an activist roughed up by police during a demonstration at a pharmaceutical company, Furstman Dunn. It's an open and shut case of police brutality until Kleeb confesses to Bennie that the protests are only part of the story. Angered at Furstman Dunn, Kleeb's group plans a far more violent punishment for the company president.
Then without warning, a savage murder tears Rosato & BIscardi apart. All the evidence points to Bennie, who has motive aplenty and unconfirmable alibi. Her world turns upside down as the lawyer becomes the client and the cops she once prosecuted are now after her - with a vengeance. To prove her innocence, Bennie probes deep into the murder. Her only ally is her lawyer, Grady Wells - until she discovers secret meetings that make her suspect even him. Just as she closes in on the killer, another murder takes place and Bennie finds herself indicted for a double homicide - a crime that is punishable by death.
Bennie runs for her life, a fugitive armed only with her wits and her courage. She'll find the real killer. Or die trying.
As I said, Lisa keeps you turning page after page and not wanting to put the book down. A good mystery writer, sometimes "hokey" and unbelievable stunts, but fast moving. Good author for a quick read.
Finished: June 24, 2011
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