Killer Smile
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (938 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0002P0DV4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 500 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Everybody around lawyer Mary DiNunzio has decided she isn't allowed to be a Young Widow anymore. Now, more than sixty years later, his son's estate hires Mary to sue for reparations.Mary vows to vindicate Amadeo even though it won't be easy. They're all trying to fix her up -- her South Philly parents, her best friend, even the office security guard.All Mary wants to do is immerse herself in a case everybody else calls "The History Channel," a pro bono representation of the Brandolini estate: At the outbreak of World War II, Amadeo Brandolini was arrested by the FBI as part of a mass internment of Italian-Americans and was sent to a camp in Montana, where he eventually committed suicide. Suddenly this quiet, squeaky-clean good girl is risking life and limb to finger a killer and lay a beloved ghost to rest.
. Mary "grew up in South Philly, where she'd learned to pop her gum, wear high heels, and work overtime" and silently prays to saints when she can't find things. All rights reserved. He lost everything and wound up committing suicide in the camp. As Mary learns more, the enemy camp (another Italian-American family, the Saracones) turns its murderous eye on her. Mary puts all of her energy into the job, and when clues suggest Brandolini's death may have been a homicide, she becomes even more enthralled. Rosato and Associates' young star, Mary DiNunzio, steps up t
Don't Miss This One! Daisy1 I'm only beginning to venture into audiobooks, because I'm having problems with my eyes, and it's nice to hear the story while my eyes are closed. So far, I have only bought audiobooks that I have already read in book form, and liked.I REALLY like this one. I love Lisa Scottoline's "Bennie Rosato" characters, and while I like them all, Mary DiNunzio is my favorite. Her Italian parents remind me SO much of my ex-in-laws in the Bronx! Very authentic dialect, like referring to the pasta sauce as "gravy" (which was a new one to me when I first visited them) and sometimes using Italian sentence structure with English words. Abs. We have law but very little justice Dawn Dunk I find something to love in all of Lisa's books. This one involve an attractive, young, wealthy, single woman now a federal judge who leads a double life. Hard to imagine some one in a powerful public position, willing to put every bit of their respect and integrity on the line to dabble in things we associate with being a degenerate. Yet, we see all the time how the mighty do fall; politicians, religious zealots, teachers, law enforcement, doctors. When a high-profile case comes to the court room and literally explodes, the judge has to wrestle with the fact she may have lit the fuse. Litigants involved come to be murdere. Over the top The book was a bit over the top when it came to how one woman could handle so much in her job with one case. The plot was good but getting there at times was a bit dragged out, It did move along. Enjoy the history of the interment camp in Colorado during WW2, andthere was not much courtroom time.I liked Scottoline's book Every Where that Mary Went much better. I'll try another read by her at some future time.