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    Courting Trouble
    Courting Trouble
    Courting Trouble
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    Courting Trouble

    Written by Lisa Scottoline

    Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

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    How many people get to solve their own murder?

    Anne Murphy is smart, gorgeous, and young, the red-headed rookie at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates. She leaves town for the Fourth of July weekend to prepare for a high-profile trial, but when she buys her morning newspaper, her own photo is plastered all over the front page. And the headline -- LAWYER MURDERED -- supposedly refers to her. Anne sets out to find her killer, playing dead in order to stay alive.

    She tries to go it alone but quickly realizes that she'll have to trust people she barely knows -- colleagues who hate her guts, a homicide squad who wants her out of the crime-fighting business, and a new love who inconveniently happens to be opposing counsel. The investigation takes all of Anne's boldness and ingenuity -- plus a pair of red satin hot pants. But her knack for courting trouble makes it almost impossible for Anne to play well with others, defend the lawsuit, and fight her urge to sleep with the enemy. Then an unexpected event places her in lethal jeopardy and leaves her with everything to lose -- including her life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateAug 30, 2004
    ISBN9780060785482
    Author

    Lisa Scottoline

    Lisa Scottoline is the New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels including Look Again, Lady Killer, Think Twice, Save Me and Everywhere That Mary Went. She also writes a weekly column, “Chick Wit,” with her daughter Francesca Serritella, for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The columns have been collected in several volumes, including Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog and My Nest Isn’t Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space. Scottoline has won an Edgar® Award and Cosmopolitan magazine’s “Fun Fearless Fiction” Award, and she served as the president of Mystery Writers of America. She teaches a course on justice and fiction at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma mater. She lives in the Philadelphia area.

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    • 3/5
      The reader sounded like she was sucking on something. Pauses had some annoying background sounds.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Scottoline's writing in not the sophisticated style of PD James or Elizabeth George, Scottoline's style is more like a grown-up Nancy Drew. The lawyers, all women, at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato and Associates run off helter-skelter attempting to solve a case. This novel heavily relies on I Love Lucy episodes for setting. The central characters are all women, and petty situations dominate the story. A stalker is killed, but he is not even responsible for the murder. Two other men are woven into the story, and either one would have been a better murder suspect, but these avenues were never developed. Scottoline is the author to read when you are looking for a quick amusement.

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    • 5/5
      As always, Barbara Rosenblaum’s narration makes the story come alive.
      The story held the reader in suspense. It compacted true human behaviour, including the behaviours that we would rather not admit even to ourselves, into every chapter and yet, remained plausible throughout the story.

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    • 3/5
      Fun fluffy crime book.
      Love Barbara Rosenblat’s reading voice EXCEPT FOR THE MOUTH NOISES.
    • 5/5
      Excellent story telling and descriptive. Twists and turns with suprise ending ver
    • 3/5
      The setup seemed promising - lawyer reads in the paper that she was found murdered. I did not mind this book, yet did not find it to be very riveting either. I liked Anne Murphy well enough, though she was a little one-dimensional with her personal interests (fashion, etc.). It seemed conflicting that she was a bit ditzy, but still a great lawyer. The stalker piece was interesting. The reveal at the end of the book felt fast and simply explained over several pages, though this isn't rare among mysteries and suspense novels.
    • 3/5
      If you're not a fan of woman-as-victim, or unrealistic extended refusal to turn a matter over to the police, this won't be your favorite of Ms. Scottoline's work.
    • 3/5
      While on vacation recently we spent a lot of time on the beach reading. I put aside my regular books and read "beach books." Courting Trouble is one of those. It's a murder mystery featuring Anne Murphy a smart, young, single, gorgeous, red headed attorney with a shoe fetish living in Philidelphia. She goes on a trip out of town by herself for the Fourth of July but reads in the paper next day that she has been killed.That piques her interest of course and she decides that she should stay dead for now and find out who "killed" her. So off the the story goes. It's pretty funny actually all the adventures and misadventures she has while she recruits help in her search for the killer. She ends up using an Uncle Sam costume as a disguise for much of the book and she and the rest of her all female law firm dress up as hookers for much of the rest of the book. She gets "lonely" and spends the night at an opposing attorney's place and then leaves before he wakes up but she can't find her panties so that is something she comments on quite frequently during the book. She goes all over town I couldn't figure out why she didn't stop in at Target and get what she needs.Anyway the book is kind of a lightweight and the plot is full of holes and anybody that has read very many whodunnits can spot whodunnit a long ways away but still the book is a fun read. I give it three stars out of five.The book has been out a while and I picked it up for fifty cents at our local libraries bargain bin. It's all broke in. The pages are sprinkled with a great mixture of beer, beach sand, and seawater so it is a genuine beach read. I'm putting it in the Goodwill bag unless somebody local wants it.
    • 3/5
      I think the aspect of this novel that didn't work so well for me was that it tried to combine action-packed thrills over a very short time period with emotional growth and development that should take place over a much longer course of time. The whole novel takes place over the course of a three-day weekend. During that time, our heroine goes through as much as Jack Bauer does in a typical season of 24. And also becomes friends with her colleagues. And meets all her neighbours. And the families of her friends/colleagues. She keeps handling her big case that is going to trial the next Tuesday, and this despite several attempts on her life. Not only that, but she and her client keep firing and re-hiring each other. Oh, and she has time to consummate a relationship with opposing counsel. There are a lot of twists in the story and it works really well as a thriller. But all these add-ons with regard to personal relationships, etc. simply don't work in the 3-day timespan of the plot. This is a great story and it's sad to see it executed in this manner. Taking the same plot elements and drawing them out over months and building the suspense might have made this a really disturbing psychological thriller. But at it stands, I just think this story didn't live up to its potential, which is especially disconcerting given that it had a heroine a reader can easily get behind and root for, a fun cast of supporting characters, a really good plot with many interesting twists and a prominent, interesting locale.
    • 2/5
      Not the best of the series. Anne Murphy needs some work. It got old real quick hearing about how beautiful she is and how things were RANDOM. I did like the little Lucille Ball quirk of hers though. I'd be okay if Murphy got knocked off in the next book.