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    Courting Trouble
    Courting Trouble
    Courting Trouble
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    Courting Trouble

    By Lisa Scottoline

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    Anne Murphy is the redheaded rookie at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates, and one morning she wakes up to front-page headlines proclaiming lawyer murdered -- above her own picture. If she wants to stay alive, she's got to play dead. She'll have to trust people she barely knows -- colleagues who hate her, homicide cops who want her out of the crime-fighting business, and a new love who inconveniently happens to be opposing counsel. But her knack for courting trouble makes it almost impossible for Anne to play well with others, and an unexpected event places her in lethal jeopardy and leaves her with everything to lose.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061740923
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    Lisa Scottoline

    Lisa Scottoline is a # New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author of thirty-two novels which have sold over 30 million copies in thirty-five countries. She also writes a weekly column with her daughter Francesca Serritella for The Philadelphia Inquirer titled “Chick Wit”—a witty and fun take on life from a woman’s perspective. Lisa reviews popular fiction and nonfiction, and her reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and she has also served as president of Mystery Writers of America. Visit her online at Scottoline.com.

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    • 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.
    • 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
      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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 4/5
      I love this series! Lisa Scottoline writes excellent legal novels and interspersed within the storylines the reader can always count on navigating references unique to Philly (Philadelphia to out-of-towners) either in the areas of the city traveled, the food consumed, or the diversity of the law firm's lawyers, clientele, and the people they interact with throughout the city.

      For anyone that has attended any part of the week long July 4th "Welcome America" holiday extravaganza celebrations in Philly is aware of the special delight on July 4th itself when a free outdoor concert is held on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The concert is followed by fireworks. This venue in particular is an extraordinary celebration to attend but it's also easy to understand why a Philadelphia resident would want to escape the traffic, crowds, and road closures and parking restrictions. Anne Murphy, a newcomer to Philly and rookie at the Rosato & Associates law firm needs quiet to prepare for a major trial that begins on July 5th. Although last minute it seems she's on her way to her own extraordinary weekend getaway to have some peace and quiet work time at the Jersey shore. She didn't anticipate her past coming back to haunt her with the opening scene of her nightmare a newspaper headline proclaiming "Lawyer Found Murdered" and the lawyer's photo with a caption name that is her own.

      Anne Murphy will make many "Mental Notes" through the novel and some are absolutely humorous while others are poignant reminders. Either way they are not to be missed and add another versatile layer of writing style in this novel.

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