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by Lisa Scottoline (Author)
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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (4 Jun 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330418688
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330418683
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.4 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 179,034 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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As if lawyer Bennie Rosato doesn't have enough problems trying to keep her struggling firm afloat, she finds that someone has been impersonating her around town and causing mayhem. Then the cops arrive and Bennie is accused of robbing a jewellery store. Just another rip-roaring day in the all-female Philadelphia law firm of Rosato and Associates, whose wacky staff deal with adversity by kicking it in painful places. Scottoline has built a big reputation with her Rosato sequence of legal thrillers, their ingenious blend of farce and suspense earning her the Edgar Award for crime fiction as well as a host of other honours. This time Scottoline excels herself with a novel that combines crime and an emotional family saga. Bennie, the heroine, is a feisty individual who can't help wise-cracking even when death stares her in the face. She doesn't find it especially funny, however, when her ex-convict identical-twin sister Alice turns up and sets out to cause ruin. A would-be murderer then begins to stalk Bennie just as it seems she has found a way to save both her reputation and cash-strapped law firm. The plot has many labyrinthine twists and a wonderfully conceived ending, while the cast of hardboiled characters and their sizzling dialogue are unforgettable. Americans seem to write this type of novel particularly well - in particular Scottoline's writing can be compared to that of Scott Turow and Janet Evanovich. Previous books in the Rosato series have been criticized for their excessive use of profanity. It seems Scottoline has got the message - the swearing here is pared to a minimum. This is by far the best Rosato book yet. (Kirkus UK)

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In this novel, ace lawyer Bennie Rosato is duelling evil in the form of her own twin sister, ex-convict Alice Connolly, who has returned to Philadelphia to exact her revenge and ruin Bennie. A mysterious stranger appears just in time to help Bennie in a fight that turns out to be for her life.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining Humor about the Perils of Private Practice, 31 Mar 2004
By Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Ringer (Scottoline, Lisa) (Hardcover)
Bennie Rosato is the heroine and narrator of Dead Ringer, and the book opens with a very compelling series of episodes that display the problems that any small legal practice faces during hard economic conditions. Bennie is losing clients right and left to bankruptcy, and the clients she has aren't paying her. She's behind on the rent, and has laid off one staff person. No new clients seem to be on the horizon when she gets an unexpected call from a courtly Frenchman whose company has been hurt by an illegal boycott. But . . . the case will be a class action suit, and Bennie has never done one before. Soon, she's mixing it up with the multimillion dollar class action lawyers who expect her to pony up $30,000 to play in the contingent fee case. If that isn't enough, someone has started impersonating her and is using her credit cards to send unwanted goods to the office. Whenever Bennie thinks she has gotten her head above water, she has another setback.

Before long, she's engaged forced to defend her very honor by solving two mysterious crimes. In the process, the danger grows to unacceptable levels . . . and a mysterious, handsome stranger becomes her Good Samaritan. With her hear aflutter, she finds it hard to concentrate on her legal practice.

Dead Ringer started off to be a remarkably entertaining book. Around two-thirds of the way through, the book began to unwind from its excellent beginning. The first weakness is that Ms. Scottoline makes too little use of the other characters who work at the Rosato firm. Although they are in many scenes, the narration doesn't shift to them . . . or give us enough of a sense about how they feel. As a result, the associates and staff seem more than a little too understanding about Bennie's financial problems. Why aren't they out looking for another job . . . or at least petrified by their financial peril?

The mysteries turn out to be way too easy to resolve . . . and Bennie's many complications unwind themselves like a slip knot. Although it's impressive as a plot device, the result feels hollow to the reader.

Also, litigators seldom have financial problems unless they only do contingent fee work. If Bennie is all but unbeatable in court, why weren't clients lined up at her door all along?

Her disregard for police procedures also seems flagrant. She really is obstructing one police investigation, and all she gets is one growl along the way.

As a result of these flights into fantasy, the book ends up not being a serious effort . . . but rather as scaffolding for a number of fairly humorous gags. But slapstick isn't a fine novel, even though it can be entertaining.

Those who have enjoyed Ms. Scottoline's other books will probably enjoy this one as well. If you like lawyer humor and don't know Ms. Scottoline's work, feel free to try this one. If you want a taut legal thriller that seems so real it scares you, look elsewhere.

As I finished the book, I thought about why novels tend to have great endings rather than great beginnings. I assumed that Dead Ringer would have an ending as good as the beginning. Perhaps authors realize that it's more important to leave you on a high than to start you with a bang!

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Evil Twin, a Murder and a Mystery, 7 Jan 2008
By Katie Osborne (Portland, Oregon and the sunny Caribbean) - See all my reviews
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Bennie Rosato's law firm, which consists of four young female attorneys and a pregnant secretary, is in trouble. They win cases, clients can't pay and they need money. Bennie takes on a class action case, then strange things start happening to her. Her wallet is stolen, she starts getting packages she didn't order, someone alleges she had been seen drunk, eventually she figures out her criminal twin is behind it all.

For some reason her evil twin is intent on ruining her reputation and her as well. With time running out, Bennie struggles to keep working and holding her firm together, while her sister keeps up her attacks. Add murder to the mix and Bennie determined to solve it and you have a five star mystery thriller you can't put down.

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