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Title: Mistaken Identity Low Price by Lisa Scottoline, Burton Kate ISBN: 0-06-009929-1 Publisher: HarperAudio Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.65 (54 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Mistaken identity, Scottoline is not Grisham
Comment: Have you ever read a Grisham legal-thriller ?. In my opinion Mr. Grisham has provided an involuntary strong influence on Lisa Scottoline, this book looks like a copycat but cannot attain the level of the former writer. With a quick pace marked by short chapters and with a poor language improper for a legal-thriller, the author is determined to trap the reader into the plot and scores, because as the pages go by, she learns how to exploit the story setting the mystery out and then turning it into tight suspense which snowballs toward the last chapters, but when you finish the book and look at it as a whole in retrospect, it is easy to perceive loose ends during the course of the events as the author falls sometimes in traps set by her own creative ideas, leaving some important situations unresolved or sidestepped, this go hand to hand with the flabby character drawing and shows a definitive poor writing style.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lisa has done it again --- Another Blockbuster!!
Comment: "Mistaken Identity" is Lisa Scottoline's sixth and best book yet. This former Edgar Award winner gets better with every novel. "Mistaken Identity" and "Rough Justice", her previous novel, bring back previous heroines -- Bennie Rosato, Mary DiNunzio, and Judy Carrier. It is most enjoyable to see the character of each of these three lawyers continue to develop.
In "Mistaken Identity", Lisa makes excellent use of her legal background to depict courtroom scenes as only a lawyer could. The plot itself is unique in that Bennie finds herself defending a prisoner, Alice Connolly, who claims to be Bennie's twin. Although the book is almost 500 pages, it is an extremely fast read. As in all of her novels, the suspense is non-stop, from beginning to end.
In her "Acknowledgements", Lisa reveals that she did not discover until she was in her thirties that she had a half-sister. So, the book has a special meaning for her. She has meticulously researched the subject of twins and provides the reader with five references for additional information.
Lisa has a marvelous website . Months ago, readers were given an opportunity to edit the first chapter of "Mistaken Identity". This additional dimension to Lisa's creativity further bonds the reader to an outstanding author.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Accused is Her Dead Ringer
Comment: Bennie (Benita) Rosato has managed to get herself into hot water with the Philadelphia Police Department on more than one occasion. In fact you might say the cops hate her. Could it be because she almost always wins in court and that she usually takes on police misconduct cases? So when someone accused of killing a cop wants to change attorneys at the last minute, a switch to Bennie might seem to make good sense.
However when Alice Connolly, accused of killing police detective Anthony Della Porta, declares that her current counsel is incompetent a week before she is to go on trial and says she wants Bennie to defend her, she's apparently looking for something more than competent counsel.
Bennie goes to the prison to interview Alice, but she's not prepared for what she finds. Alice proclaims her innocence, or course, and says she was framed by the police, but what knocks Bennie for a loop is the fact that Alice looks like a prettier, albeit streetwise, version of herself.
She claims to be Bennie's twin and has some strong evidence to prove it, however Bennie isn't convinced. However there's one person who could prove it one way or another, and that's Bennie's mother, but unfortunately she's not much help, given her mental illness. So Bennie, with a week's notice, has to decide whether she's going to save her self-professed twin from the screwed up defence she's been getting so far.
It's her sister (or is it?) after all, so there's a lot of interesting tactics bandied about to try and save Alice from her appointment with the needle, helped along by the biased rulings and demeanor of the judge. Is there a conspiracy afoot? Was the deceased detective involved in drug dealing? Can Bennie put the personal aspects of the case aside and be the calm and cool lawyer she must be?
When you go into a courtroom in one of Ms. Scottoline's books, it's like you're both observer and participant, prosecutor and counsel for the defense. It also doesn't hurt any that Scottoline can draw you into her characters and make you care about them with just a few words, that she paints scenes on her pages so real, you feel like you're there.
Reviewed by Leeann Douglass
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Title: Legal Tender by Lisa Scottoline ISBN: 0061094129 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Moment of Truth by Lisa Scottoline ISBN: 0061030597 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Running from the Law by Lisa Scottoline ISBN: 0061094110 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Everywhere That Mary Went by Lisa Scottoline ISBN: 0061042935 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Rough Justice by Lisa Scottoline ISBN: 0061096105 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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