Accused: A Rosato & Associates Novel [Kindle Edition] Author: Lisa Scottoline | Language: English | ISBN:
B009LRWH3Q | Format: PDF, EPUB
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New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Lisa Scottoline revolutionized crime fiction when she introduced her all-female law firm of Rosato & Associates, thrilling readers with her twisty, fast-paced plots and capturing their hearts with her cast of strong and relatable female characters. Now Bennie Rosato, Mary DiNunzio, Judy Carrier, and Anne Murphy are back with all cylinders firing in Accused.
Mary Dinuzio has just been promoted to partner and is about to take on her most unusual case yet, brought to the firm by a thirteen-year-old genius with a penchant for beekeeping. Allegra Gardner’s sister Fiona was murdered six years ago, and it seemed like an open-and-shut case: the accused, Lonnie Stall, was seen fleeing the scene; his blood was on Fiona and her blood was on him; most damningly, Lonnie Stall pleaded guilty. But Allegra believes Lonnie is innocent and has been wrongly imprisoned. The Gardner family is one of the most powerful in the country and Allegra’s parents don’t believe in reopening the case, so taking it on is risky. But the Rosato & Associates firm can never resist an underdog. Was justice really served all those years ago? It will take a team of unstoppable female lawyers, plus one thirteen-year-old genius, to find out.
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- File Size: 561 KB
- Print Length: 368 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press (October 29, 2013)
- Sold by: Macmillan
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009LRWH3Q
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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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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