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 wa...