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Legal Tender by Lisa Scottoline
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HarperTorch (1997), Mass Market Paperback, 464 pages

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When her boyfriend announces he is dissolving their legal practice for a partnership with another woman, lawyer Bennie Rosato is shocked. Nothing like the shock she gets when police arrive to say the boyfriend is dead and they think she killed him. ( )
  GMac | Apr 7, 2009 |
A decent legal thriller, set in Philadelphia. Bennie Rosato is a rather outspoken lawyer who has recently broken up with her boyfriend - who also happens to be her partner in their legal practice. When he turns up dead - and she has nothing resembling a confirmable alibi - things get a bit sticky for Bennie.

The story was interesting, although I can't decide if I liked Bennie, or if she was just a bit too much. There's a romance which seems rather half-hearted, and should probably have been left out (or developed a wee bit more). On the whole, though, I enjoyed it well enough as a bath-time read. ( )
  herebedragons | Oct 16, 2007 |
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0061094129, Mass Market Paperback)

Philadelphia lawyer turned novelist (what a concept!) Scottoline has already won a best original paperback Edgar for Final Appeal. Now she might just nail down a hardcover one for her latest book -- a lovely combination of high energy, imagination and nasty good humor mostly directed against lawyers. Her central character this time out is a definite keeper: Benedetta Rosato, "Bennie" to everyone but her mother, a towering blonde who rows to keep her body in shape and duels with the police on a daily basis to keep her legal talents sharp. Most of Bennie's clients have a gripe against the cops, so Philadelphia's finest are less than sympathetic to her cause when she becomes the chief suspect in the murder of her ex-lover and soon to be ex-law partner. Hiding out in a truly original way, Bennie uses (and abuses) a big law firm to help find the real killers; you'll find yourself laughing and gasping all the way.

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