Dead Ringer
A pulse-pounding legal thriller following two dueling twins, from the New York Times bestselling author
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'Scottoline fans and first-time readers will love this tale of dueling twins' – Cosmopolitan
They say that blood is thicker than water - but just how far should you go for a sister?
When ace lawyer Bennie Rosato's twin sister returns to Philadelphia, she knows that trouble is on the horizon. At the same time, Bennie's law firm is in trouble, so she takes on a potentially lucrative calss action suit to try to save the day. It could be make or break - both for her family and her firm. Then a mysterious stranger appears just in time to help Bennie in the fight of her life, for her life...
Full of pace, suspense and laugh-out-loud humour, Dead Ringer, by bestselling New York Times author Lisa Scottoline, went on to be chosen as a Costco book club pick, a Cosmopolitan Magazine Hot Summer Pick, a Literary Guild and Mystery Guild main selection, and a Doubleday Book Club, Book of the Month Club.
Praise for Lisa Scottoline
‘Scottoline is a powerhouse’ – David Baldacci
‘Scottoline knows how to keep readers in her grip’ – New York Times
‘Scottoline is one of the very best writers today’ – Michael Connelly
‘Breathlesly paced’ – Sunday Times
'Scottoline writes riveting thrillers that keep me up at night' - Harlan Coben
‘Move over John Grisham, Scottoline writes legal thrillers to die for’ – Daily Mirror
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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 time out it's Bennie playing the lead role, as she fights to save her financially sinking firm; mother her lovable partners, Mary DiNunzio and Judy Carrier; solve the murder of a valuable client; and battle her evil twin, Alice. The eviction notice is on the door when suave Frenchman Robert St. Amien steps in with a class-action suit that promises not only to stave off Bennie's landlord but to shovel millions of dollars into the firm's bottomed-out bank account. The fact that our heroine has never handled a class-action suit doesn't faze her for more than a nanosecond. Bennie has her wallet stolen and soon becomes the target of increasingly sinister attacks, until it becomes clear that Alice (last seen in Mistaken Identity) is back in town and bent on revenge. When the stakes are upped to murder, Bennie realizes she's in big trouble. Fortunately, hunky SEAL David Holland shows up to save her dog, act as bodyguard and supply the love interest. Of course, he has a dark secret, but this just makes him more appealing and sympathetic when it is revealed. Occasional awkward writing intrudes ("Anger bubbled like lifeblood to her cheeks"), there are too many pantyhose jokes, and the solution to the mystery is a clunker, but readers caught up in the fast and furious wordplay will hardly notice. Bennie grows on you, and soon enough you're rooting for the home team and laughing at her corny jokes. Mystery Guild and Literary Guild main selection; Doubleday Book Club, BOMC and QPB alternate; Costco's June Book Club selection; 9-city author tour.
