Mary DiNunzio has just been promoted to partner at her all female law firm. She takes on a case from a 13 year old wealthy genius who wants to investigate her sisters murder even though the man that pleaded guilty is in jail. The young client doesn't believe he is guilty but with her parents opposition to the investigation and the fact that she may have mental trouble doesn't help Mary's progress in solving the crime.

This is a very surface novel. It's good to pass the time.

I liked the ease of the book. It was an investigative crime story but it was extremely easy to follow along. There was nothing major to figure out because it was so simple.

The reader wasn't given any insights that could lead them to the outcome prior to the end. There were no real clues to piece together the resolutions. Mary wasn't any good at putting the murder investigation together and in the end didn't have any information on the murderer in order to be lead to him. Since the facts presented to the reader didn't give a clue until the end, it felt abrupt and unrealistic.

This is the second book I've read from Lisa Scottoline that a character talked in all caps throughout the entire book. For some reason she must thinks that's acceptable. She needs to work on her characterization and come up with a more imaginative way to write them without the characters all caps dialogue to set them apart.

Throughout the book, everyone the protagonist interviewed was nice. Everyone talked to her, she got appointments right away with whoever she thought to talk to, and she had no real conflicts in gathering information. Everyone was nice, even Mary, to the extreme point of responding back to her 13 year old client when told,"I love you", Mary responded in kind. It seemed the author didn't want any character to be disliked. Maybe that's why she didn't reveal any details about who the murderer was until the end so she didn't have to deal with it.

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