Running From the Law audiobook

I freaking love Rita. She's awesome! What a great female lead. This book seemed long when I picked it up but I flew through it. I enjoyed the mystery and I did not figure out who the killer was.

Once again, a solid mystery page-turner with tight suspense and well-defined characters. As the story progresses and the mystery deepens, the ground keeps shifting under protagonist Rita Morrone’s feet. Every new turn seems to bring to light a new clue or a new suspect, and the reader is alongside Rita as she tries to sort out the truth from a maze of dead ends. Quick plot summary (with some [hidden] spoilers ahead): Rita Morrone is a partner in a Philadelphia law firm, a trial attorney with a well-honed sense for the intangibles that come in alongside the law in any court case. For example, the opening scene has her playing on the sympathies of a jury that knows only that they are resuming the trial after a break occasioned by death of “counsel’s mother”. They don’t know which counsel, though – an ambiguity that Rita adroitly exploits to win points for her side. But it’s not this case that forms the backbone of the novel. (view spoiler)[The new murder case starts with a sexual harassment complaint, in which the defendant is not only a prominent judge, but her long-term boyfriend’s father. But then the accuser turns up dead, and it turns out that Rita’s boyfriend, the accused judge’s son, has also been the accuser’s lover. (hide spoiler)] All of a sudden she is in the middle of a murder case where several people close to her turn into very plausible suspects.As always with a Scottoline mystery, it’s the character development that is the high point with me. Rita’s stomping grounds is that center of South Philly Italian Catholic daily life, the Italian Market on 9th Street – specifically, the butcher shop where she was raised, mostly by her father alone, and where he still tries to eke out a living. Her upbringing there has made her an expert on some unusual things: knives and poker. She joins her father and a small crew of his old, old friends in a weekly poker game, and it’s the wisdom she picks up at her father’s side, through life and through poker, which provides the insight to navigate the twist and turns of her legal cases. “Don’t watch the player, watch the cards,” her father admonishes her when he suspects a client is manipulating her. The other poker players become her allies when she needs to bluff her way to information as she investigates the murder. And they are the first people to come to her rescue in times of trouble.Rita is a well-drawn character, flawed, real, and easy to like, though not without her abrasive moments. She’s quick-witted and snarky, but she generally keeps her barbed comments to herself, prefacing many replies with unspoken zingers that we readers get to enjoy. (She hands a document to an opposing witness. “You want I should read it?” he asks. No, I want you should make a paper airplane, she retorts, mentally, before speaking the words, “Yes, please, read it.”.) She’s also smart and has good instincts, making her a character that readers want to follow.

Legal thriller - Rita Morrone, wisecracking, poker playing, defense attorney defends a federal judge against sexual harassment charges. The judge is the father of her lover, who has also had an affair with the plaintiff. Then the plaintiff is murdered..

Good short story

My first Lisa Scottoline mystery-- and probably not my last. I enjoyed ther attitude of defense lawyer Rita Morrone who ends up defending her boyfriend's father in a murder case. Other suspects include the boyfriend himself (Both he and the dad were sleeping with the victim.), his mother, the victim's live in boyfriend and others. I have to say although I considered the perp at one time, I never really thought it was him until he showes up at City Hall rready to kill Lisa. Thank heavens she has her own gang of senior citizens there to protect her!

Always a favorite authorAnother homerun from a hometown chick of mine!! I discovered Lisa Scottoline over 20 years ago, and she introduced me to Bennie Rosatto. In this book, the lead female lawyer is Rita, a snarky-ish, tough Italian that loves her family and insists on justice, and gets it with heart pounding excitement, and a twist(ted!) ending you won't see coming. A true page turned to the end, Running From the Law is a must read !!!!

I loved this SO MUCH. Rita is a perfect character == poker-playing, father-loving, non criminal focusing attorney. Story involves many characters, all of which play a part. This book is funny, sad, and everything in between. Cam, Sal, and especially Herman are wonderful. The others== Fiske, Kate, Paul, LaVonne, Tobin, Mack == all have parts and are all good at them. Next to favorite Scottoline yet.

I’ve always enjoyed Lisa Scottoline books but it was some time in the 2000s before I found her. This book is from 1996 and really good. A couple of things are dated, like flip phones, but other than those, she could have written it this year. I love how Rita, the main character, usually has a sarcastic comment in her head, like most of us, before answering. Parts are funny, parts are serious, and parts are filled with mystery and a little danger. Definitely worth reading.

Lisa never disappointsOkay, i will admit it...i thought this was lisa’s rossinni law firm novel (love love those...great characters and plots). But, oh, by page 10, she had me. And it just got better and better. I hooe this is the beginning of another series. If it is, count me in!

Fresh mouthThis books reads like it is on fire, a one sitting read. A mouthy Italian lawyer finds herself in a murder case with her future father in law as the accused. She decides to find the real killer abetted by her father's geriatric friends. It is a romp accompanied by humor and sentiment and a bit of romance.

What a fun book--not just a good mystery with a twist but lots of humor given the give and take among the characters. Great dialogue and compelling characters. So enjoyable was able to finish it in a day!