Barbara Rosenblat
1) Lady killer
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Mary DiNunzio's teenage angst comes flooding back when her high school nemesis, Trish Gambone (dubbed "Trash" by Mary) comes seeking her help. It doesn't matter that Mary is now the rainmaker of Rosato & Associates, Trish's mere presence is enough to make Mary feel like she's at the bottom of the food chain. As it turns out, however, Trish's life has taken a horrifying turn. She is terrified of her live-in boyfriend, an abusive South Philly mobster,...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 17
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At last the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are preparing for another season of excavation in Egypt. To everyone's great joy their son Ramses and his wife Nefret have become parents. Amelia, enjoying her role of fond (yet firm) grandmother, hopes that for once, this will be a quiet year with Ramses no longer undertaking perilous missions for British intelligence and no old enemies...
3) Killer smile
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Lawyer Mary DiNunzio, immersed in a case everybody else calls "The History Channel," is seeking reparations for the Brandolini estate, a case that involved Italian Americans at the outbreak of World War II.
4) Dirty blonde
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In her thirties, Cate Fante is strong and smart, but when she becomes a federal judge, even she wonders if she can do the job justice. But Cate keeps her doubts a secret. And, as it happens, much else. For she leads a dark double life that she hides from everyone. Then a high-profile case in her courtroom explodes into a shocking murder-suicide, and it blasts her cover wide open. Overnight the tabloids tell her secrets, her boyfriend dumps her, and...
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 5
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Attorney Jack Newlin comes home one evening to find his wife, Honor, dead on the floor of their elegant dining room. Convinced that he knows who killed her--and determined to hide the truth--Jack decides to make it look as though he did it. Staging the crime scene so that the evidence incriminates him, he then calls the police. And to hammer the final nail in his own coffin, he hires the most inexperienced lawyer he can find, a reluctant rookie by...
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Five lives in the Baltimore area have been brutally destroyed over the past six years-five unsolved homicides, seemingly unconnected except for the suspicion that each death was the result of domestic violence. In hot legal water, and court-ordered therapy, Tess Monaghan accepts an assignment with a local nonprofit organization, agreeing to review police documents on each case for inconsistencies and investigative blunders. But curiosity is leading...
8) Daddy's girl
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Law professor Natalie Greco finds her comfortable world turned upside down after she agrees to teach a class at a local prison and is caught in the middle of a violent prison riot that will change her life forever.
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 7
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Anne Murphy is smart, gorgeous, and young, the redheaded rookie at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates. She leaves town for the Fourth of July weekend to prepare for a high-profile trial, but when she buys her morning newspaper, her own photo is plastered all over the front page. And the headline--- LAWYER MURDERED -- supposedly refers to her. Anne sets out to find her killer, playing dead in order to stay alive. She tries to go it alone...
10) Rough justice
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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Criminal lawyer Marta Richter is hours away from winning an acquittal for her client, millionaire businessman Elliot Steere, on trial for the murder of a homeless man who had tried to carjack him.But as the jury begins deliberations, Marta discovers the chilling truth about her client's innocence. Taking justice into her own hands, she furiously sets out to prove the truth, with the help of two young associates.In an excruciating game of beat-the-clock...
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Mark Rubin's family is missing and the police won't get involved because all the evidence indicates that his wife left willingly. So the successful Baltimore furrier turns to Tess Monaghan, hoping she can help him find his wife and three children. Tess doesn't quite know what to make of Rubin, who doles out vitally important information in grudging dribs and drabs. According to her client, he and his beautiful wife, Natalie, had a flawless, happy...
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Lawyer Judy Carrier takes the case of an elderly pigeon racer, Tony Lucia, who has been arrested for the murder of his lifelong enemy Angelo Coluzzi. "Pigeon Tony," as he's known, confesses to Judy that he killed Coluzzi because of a vendetta begun more than fifty years ago. Her client's guilt, however, is only the beginning of Judy's problems. The Coluzzi family wants revenge, and they are determined to finish off Pigeon Tony and Judy before the...
13) Dark Tort
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While searching for the killer of her friend Dusty, Goldy finds herself knee-deep in suspects; one of whom is very dangerous and liable to cook Goldy's goose.
14) Dead ringer
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Philadelphia attorney Bennie Rosato has her eye focused firmly on the bottom line, and she takes a professional risk when she changes into a class action lawsuit that could make or break her career. Then her wallet goes missing, and someone posing as her creats havoc around town.
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A legal thriller on Rita Morrone, a Philadelphia lawyer defending a federal judge in a sexual harassment action instituted by his secretary. When the secretary is found dead the judge becomes the prime murder suspect. The case has family complications, the judge being the father of Morrone's boyfriend. By the author of Everywhere That Mary Went.
16) Devil's corner
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When prosecutor Vicki Allegretti arrives at a rowhouse to meet a confidential informant, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time -- and is almost shot to death. She barely escapes with her life, but cannot save the two others gunned down before her disbelieving eyes. Stunned and heartbroken, Vicki tries to figure out how a routine meeting on a minor case became a double homicide.
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From Jane Stanton Hitchcock, New York Times bestselling author of sophisticated thrillers Trick of the Eye and Social Crimes, comes One Dangerous Lady, a gripping mystery about a socialite's daring investigation into the disappearance of a wealthy art collector. While in Barbados for a lavish high-society wedding, Jo Slater-once on the brink of social obscurity-is back on top of her game. But when her old friend, Russell Cole, disappears, Jo is convinced...
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A woman's dangerous past is never far behind her in this "gripping" romantic suspense novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author (Publishers Weekly).
Everything She Lost
If her abusive husband hadn't tried to kill her and her beloved dog Lucie, Helen Ward might never have left her million-dollar home and run far away. Now Helen's changed her identity and moved across the country, hopeful that...
Everything She Lost
If her abusive husband hadn't tried to kill her and her beloved dog Lucie, Helen Ward might never have left her million-dollar home and run far away. Now Helen's changed her identity and moved across the country, hopeful that...
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Anne and Kevin plan to spend the summer working at Greyhaven, an ancient castle moved from England to Pennsylvania. A crypt is discovered in the castle's chapel that suggests pre-Christian practice of sacrifice. As Greyhaven exerts its power, Anne finds herself in love with Kevin. But Kevin has given his heart to another, a woman who's been dead for three hundred years.