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Loading... Moment of Truth (2000)by Lisa Scottoline
ereader ebook   romsfuulynn | Apr 28, 2013 |  When Jack Newlin comes home to find his wife dead on their elegant dining room floor, he's convinced he knows who has killed her. He sets out to stage the murder so that he appears to be guilty. To hammer the final nail in his coffin, he hires the most inexperienced lawyer he can find: Mary DiNunzio of Rosato and Associates. Unfortunately for Jack, hiring Mary might be his biggest mistake. Inexperienced she might be, but Mary soon discovers that instead of defending a guilty client claiming to be innocent, she defending an innocent client claiming to be guilty. I give this story a B+! (  ) moonshineandrosefire | Feb 7, 2012 | Interesting set of characters, and by turns entertaining and frustrating plot. I did it hard going to suspend my disbelief at times. I found myself irritated by some police refusal to investigate properly; a certain amount of hammering home of some moral viewpoints and ethics; and I think there was some repetition of Mary saying she wasn't really qualified to deal with the case. I might read another - I'm not sure. Anyway, worth a try. (  ) Flit | Oct 17, 2011 | A good easy read but not outstanding. The murderer came out of left field - did not have much of a place in the story. ( ) clarejo | Aug 9, 2011 | The author is compared to [author: John Grisham], and I can see the similarity - being a book about lawyers, but Grisham writes much more exciting and intriguing books.I enjoyed this book and for most of it found myself eager to read more. But as I closed in on the end I started to get bored. While the book tried to be more and more exciting I found it tiresome, as "the plot thickened". There were too many layers to "who did it", which would have been fine if the last few layers had been shed slowly. But it was only in the last few chapters that the truth was even hinted at. There wasn't enough foreshadowing and you never felt "oh, that was obvious" as the truth was revealed. I also felt myself wanting to scream at the blind cops, unwilling to investigate things and preferring to pass them off as fiction.I doubt I'll read the author again, unless I buy their books in a cheap back (like I did with this one). It's not really my type of book. But then I did enjoy it - it certainly captivated me for a week or so. ( ) draigwen | Oct 31, 2010 | no reviews | add a review
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