Accused: A Rosato & Associates Novel Hardcover Author: Visit Amazon's Lisa Scottoline Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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From Publishers Weekly
Mary DiNunzio faces two daunting changes in bestseller Scottoline&'s intriguing 12th novel featuring the all-woman Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates (after 2010&'s Think Twice): she has become a partner in the firm, which affects her relationships with former fellow associates; and boyfriend Anthony Rotunno gets a lot more serious. Mary&'s first client as a partner is 13-year-old Allegra Gardner, who wants to retain the firm to prove that Lonnie Stall, imprisoned for the murder of Allegra&'s older sister, Fiona, six years earlier, is innocent and to find the real killer. Allegra may be precocious, and she has her own funds, but her wealthy parents oppose her actions directly and forcibly. Myriad legal and ethical problems complicate the case, including Stall&'s own confession, as does the help, wanted and unwanted, of the DiNunzio and Rotunno families. Mary follows her heart and gut into danger in this welcome series return after three stand-alones. First printing of 400,000. Agent: Molly Friedrich, Friedrich Literary Agency. (Oct.)
From Booklist
Scottoline returns to the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates, with Mary DiNunzio now a partner. Thirteen-year-old Allegra Gardner wants to hire the firm, and she has the trust fund to do it. The murder of her sister, Fiona, six years ago still haunts Allegra because she believes the confessed and convicted killer is innocent. Now she wants Mary to prove it. Mary falls for the sad little rich girl and takes the case despite serious misgivings expressed by her associates and the Gardner family. Mary starts digging, finding that Allegra is not the reliable witness she appeared to be. Nor is anyone else, for that matter. Mary gets support from her fiancé, Anthony, her warm Italian parents, and their friends, who also inject some humor. Scottoline writes Nancy Drew mysteries for adults. Mary’s naïveté and belief in justice are heartwarming and believable, and all the characters are recognizable without being clichéd. This is a long-awaited (since Think Twice, 2010), solid entry into a terrific series that should appeal to fans of Sheldon Siegel, Rose Connors, and Steve Martini. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Everything Scottoline writes sells big, but her Rosato series leads the way. Fans have been waiting three years for this one and will respond enthusiastically. --Stacy Alesi
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- Series: Rosato & Associates (Book 1)
- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (October 29, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1250027659
- ISBN-13: 978-1250027658
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
In Lisa Scottoline's "Accused: A Rosato & Associates Novel," Mary DeNunzio has just made partner at boss Bennie Rosato's all-female law Philadelphia firm. The family is there celebrating along with Mary, her best friend and Associate Judy Carrier, and Bennie when she is approached by a new client: 13 year old Allegra Gardner. Allegra is a child genius, beekeeper, and daughter of an extremely wealthy and influential family. Allegra wants Mary to look into the murder of her sister Fiona. Fiona's killer was convicted and sent to prison, but Allegra is sure he is innocent. Her parents are strongly opposed to reopening the case, putting Mary and company in the difficult moral and legal position of representing a minor without parental consent.
Sound like a great set-up?
It is. But then Scottoline goes all cute on the reader. It starts with Mary and Judy passing notes during their first meeting with Allegra, commenting on how cute she is and making bee puns. It gets cuter with the addition of "the Tonys," who are three Tonys who are friends of Mary's family. Add to the cuteness mix a lot of meals with Mary's family, a lot of worrying and boo-hooing about Mary's engagement, her friendship with Judy, and the fact that her twin sister is absent, vaults this book deep into Cozy territory.
I have read most of the Rosato and Associates books, and remember liking the early ones. They were tense and terse and filled with suspense. They were gritty. They were definitely noCcozies. I read Scottoline's standalone "Don't Go," and almost swore off her books forever. But along came this one and I figured I'd give the writer one more chance. The earlier books, after all, were real page-turners.
And, if you like Cozies, this could be your thing.
Having just made partner at Rosato & Associates the newly engaged Mary DiNunzio should be on the top of the world. Yet there is something that does not feel right and for once it is not the chaos of being in neither a large family nor, her law practice per se just the case she just took on from a thirteen year-old girl who wants to free the murderer of her sister, who coincidentally pleaded guilty.
Allegra Gardner never believed the man sentenced for the murder of her sister was the person who committed the crime and she wants Mary to find out who did. Allegra is a serious child that has been patiently waiting for her trust fund to be released to her so that she can hire a lawyer and with money and way too much intelligence Allegra knows exactly what direction to send them in, away from the convicted man. The box of insanity this client has produced starts with influential parents that do not want this reopened, a legal system that wishes to not be shamed into a wrong conviction, and Mary's partner who does not believe Allegra is credible. There are so many voices screaming that Allegra is as unbalanced as others make her out to be, but Mary does not believe them she believes in her client. With blind faith she moves forward with and without support, taking on the system that sent a man to prison for life when Mary believes there is another person responsible. All the arrows are pointing toward another direction and with while there is more wrong than right answers to questions on this case, Mary is getting closer.
Problem is the person that Mary believes may be responsible produces an alibi that appears to not be breakable, but everything has a crack in it somewhere.
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