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Dead Ringer.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JAN-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Dead Ringer.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Lisa Scottoline HarperCollins Publishers www.harpercollins.com 336 pp., $25.95

Bennie Rosato is a woman lawyer in a man's world. It is a formula, but it rings true.

What Lisa Scottoline's protagonist has going for her is a sense of humor and an intimate knowledge of the profession. That knowledge is brought to the table by her creator, who left her career as a trial lawyer for one as an award-winning crime novelist with nine books and counting.

This time around, Bennie, a six-foot blonde with proportions "positively Amazonian" and blue eyes free of makeup but marked with crows' feet, hasn't paid herself a salary in two months. Although she is "one of the best trial lawyers in Philadelphia," practically undefeated in over 100 civil and criminal jury trials, two of her bread-and-butter corporate clients have filed for Chapter 11.

"The slump in the...

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