Lesa's Book Critiques: LISA SCOTTOLINE AT COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY

 Lesa's Book Critiques: LISA SCOTTOLINE AT COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline: Reviewed by Kristin Imagine being ripped from everything you know. Imagine being told to cram a few things into a bag and go. Imagine your...

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Audio Books: Jeanne's Picks

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Audio Books: Jeanne's Picks:   Like Christy , I am something of a newcomer to audio books. While I have to say that I still prefer REAL books (i.e., paper!) I have lis...

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Have a Nice Guilt Trip by Lisa Scottoline and Fran...

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Have a Nice Guilt Trip by Lisa Scottoline and Fran...: Reviewed by Kristin I have been on a Lisa Scottoline kick lately.   In the past two months I have read seven of her books—both n...

Saturdays With Kaye: Exposed by Lisa Scottoline

Exposed by Lisa Scottoline

In this, the fifth book in the Rosato & DiNunzio series, the story opens on Mary DiNunzio’s father and his friends from their close-knit South Philly neighborhood calling Mary in, in need of a lawyer.

The group of older men is great comic relief: her deaf father, Matty, and three men named Tony. They are differentiated by their nicknames, Tony “From-Down-the-Block,” Pigeon, and Feet. But the case Mary is called in on is a serious one. A man from her childhood, Simon, has just been fired from his job at OpenSpace, a company that makes cubicles. The reason for his firing was obviously bogus and the timing is horrible. He has lost his insurance just when his baby daughter, Rachel, desperately needs an expensive bone marrow transplant for her ALL (acute lymphoblastic leukemia). Mary says that, of course, she will help him sue OpenSpace.

That’s a problem, though, as her law colleague, the tough, prickly Bennie Rosato, points out. She tells Mary that OpenSpace is owned by Dumbarton, which is a client of their firm. Will Mary have to quit her job with the firm to help the old family friend? Will this come between Mary and Bennie? The latter believes she should not take the case.

There are lawsuits and countersuits that pile on to the complications. Rachel’s illness causes ripples in every direction. As the reader is taken into the sad world of childhood cancer, layers of guilt and deception are uncovered on many levels, and both Bennie and Mary realize that the personal and professional consequences are huge for both of them.

Reviewed by Kaye George, Editor of Day of the Dark: Eclipse Stories, for Suspense Magazine

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: After Anna by Lisa Scottoline

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: After Anna by Lisa Scottoline: Reviewed by Kristin When a mother is reunited with her long-lost child, you might expect a heartwarming story.   Not this time. ...

Monday With Kaye: Most Wanted by Lisa Scottoline (Reviewed by Kaye George)

This week it is thriller time with Kaye….

Most Wanted by Lisa Scottoline

As this domestic thriller opens, Christine Nilsson is leaving her job as a reading specialist at Nutmeg Hill grade school and her fellow teachers and faculty members are throwing her a shower. She’s leaving because she is finally pregnant, and rejoices in the fact. Only her best friend and her parents know the truth about the baby, that she and her husband Marcus used a sperm donor because of his low count. This was a difficult

decision, but they’re both happy with the way it’s turning out.

They’ve seen pictures of their donor, known only by a number, Donor 3319, and he’s a handsome, intelligent-looking blonde guy, a medical student, who resembles Marcus. As Christine is helping to clean up after the party, she spots a report on TV of a serial killer, a man who has brutally slain several nurses. The man has been caught and he’s shown being put into a police car. He looks straight into the camera. His name is Zachary Jeffcoat, aka the Nurse Murderer, but Christine realizes he’s also Donor 3319.

Marcus isn’t as convinced as his wife is, at first, and the best friend refuses to believe it. But Christine has to know for sure. She can no longer tell if her nausea is morning sickness or is from knowing that the child she carries, that she loves, is most probably fathered by a murderer. Eventually, this innocent unborn child wreaks havoc between her and Marcus and causes her to defy the orders of her husband and their lawyer, putting herself into a dangerous situation, trying to discover the truth and save her marriage—and her child.

What would you do if you were carrying the baby of a serial killer? This is a gut-wrenching, heart-pounding story.

                     

Reviewed by Kaye George, Author of Death in the Time of Ice, for Suspense Magazine

Lesa's Latest Contest-- St. Martin's Press Giveaway

As posted elsewhere....

This week, I'm giving away two books from St. Martin's Press - Martine Bailey's historical novel, including some mystery & recipes - An Appetite for Violets, and Lisa Scottoline's Betrayed. Details on my blog at http://www.lesasbookcritiques.blogspot.com. Entries from the U.S. only, please.

Lesa Holstine
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