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Rosato and Associates novels volume 7.
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As the all-female firm of Rosato & Associates wages war on a predatory old-boys firm in the courtroom, Murphy, a young associate for Rosato who has captivated the court, soon discovers that someone wants her dead.
2. Daddy's girl
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 8.
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Battling her sister in a heated dispute at the same time her law firm runs into financial trouble, attorney Bennie Rosato takes on a potentially lucrative class action suit and finds unexpected assistance from a mysterious stranger.
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3.8 stars
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A routine meeting between prosecutor Vicki Allegretti and a confidential informant ends in a double homicide and Allegretti barely escapes with her life. Allegretti can identify the killers and she sets out to see justice done. Her investigation leads her to Devil's Corner, a Philadelphia neighborhood teetering on the brink of ruin.
5. Dirty Blonde
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
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While trying to become a partner at the cutthroat Philadelphia law firm where she works, Mary DiNunzio receives threatening phone calls from a dangerous stalker
7. Final appeal
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3 stars
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Overwhelmed by her divorce, an affair with her boss, and a volatile assignment, lawyer Grace Rossi finds herself investigating a murder case involving judicial corruption
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 15.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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When one of his counselor wife's clients suspiciously disappears and the woman's husband, a San Francisco jail guard, is accused of her murder, lawyer Dismas Hardy examines possible suspects before discovering evidence of the corruption-related death of an inmate.
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 9.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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When she receives personal threats and an associate is murdered, young lawyer Mary DiNunzio realizes that her latest case, involving a World War II internment camp suicide, may have deadly modern-day ties.
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 10.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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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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Rosato and Associates novels volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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When her former lover and partner, Mark Biscardi, is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect in the crime, Benedetta "Bennie" Rosato finds herself framed for murder, on the run from the cops, and searching for the real killer.
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 4.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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A partner in an all-female Philadelphia law firm, Bennie Rosato ventures to the local prison to consult with a possible client, Alice Connolly, accused of cold-blooded murder, and discovers her double, who claims to be her long-lost twin sister.
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 5.
Average Rating:
2 stars
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Attorney Mary DiNunzio doesn't believe that her newest client murdered his wife, even though he says he did, but before she can convince him to tell her the truth, she must figure out why he is trying to protect the true killer.
14. Natchez burning
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Penn Cage novels volume 4.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Penn Cage must investigate when his father, a beloved family doctor and pillar of the community, is accused of murdering Violet Davis, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s.
15. Pleasantville
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Jay Porter novels volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Acclaimed author Attica Locke reintroduces us to environmental lawyer Jay Porter (her Black Water Rising protagonist), who takes one last case on the behalf of the community of Pleasantville in this thriller--only to become embroiled in its shadowy politics, a disturbing education in how far those in power are willing to go to win."
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 3.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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On the eve of the acquittal of her client, defense attorney Marta Richter learns that he is guilty of murder and puts her life on the line to secure justice.
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4 stars
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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.
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 6.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Lawyer Judy Carrier agrees to defend an old Italian pigeon-keeper accused of murder, but the complexities of the case, which centers on a fifty-year-old vendetta, leave her in doubt of her ability to mount a convincing defense.