Helpful Score: 5
Good read - suspenseful and page-turning. If you like this author or even this genre, you'll enjoy this novel.
Helpful Score: 5
When you put your hands on ROUGH JUSTICE and start reading it, you'll never be able to put it away. Why? Cause you just don't think you're reading a book, but watching the best Law movie you've ever watched. The book is full of twists, action, wonderful characters that seem to be someone from your own family, and Lisa Scottoline goes beyond: she makes you laugh by the way she describe things and put sentences into people's mouth. SHE'S AN AMAZING AUTHOR! Remember the guy who you think is the best author of the genre? Forget him. Buy this book and see why I'm so in love with Lisa's books. Just don't start reading it if you have to work the next day.
Helpful Score: 4
Lawyers, millionaires, murder - its all there in this exciting book. Held my interest right to the end. A good read.
Helpful Score: 3
I really enjoyed reading this book. I never wanted to put it down & when I did, I could hardly wait until I could start reading it again. Love Lisa Scottoline!
Helpful Score: 3
Another Scottoline thriller. This is a very fast moving legal/courtroom drama. The attorney turns investigator to find out the truth about her client.
Helpful Score: 2
Scottoline writes a good legal mystery. This one features Marta Richter, a criminal lawyer and a scuzzy rich client.
Kristina B. (familiagarduno) reviewed Rough Justice (Rosato & Associates, Bk 5) on + 164 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This is the book that hooked me on Scottoline. Not to mention DiNuzzio and Associates :) This book is going to make you think twice about the person who pleads self defense, especially when it seems to real. Wait till you see what Mr. "Rich" thought he could do to a "nobody". You'll be irate at him and thrilled to find out the truth! Not to mention when justice is served!!!!!
Helpful Score: 2
Great read, story goes in many directions and is exciting til the end. I love her characters.
Helpful Score: 1
it keeps you turning pages. i found it to be engrossing
Helpful Score: 1
good easy read..good summer reading
Helpful Score: 1
Lawyer Marta Richter finds out the multimillionaire she is about to get aquitted may not be what she thinks. As she goes about discovering the truth, she discovers that the search for justice can be deadly.
Leonore P. (Grizabella) reviewed Rough Justice (Rosato & Associates, Bk 5) on + 63 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Good legal mystery. In the first 2 pages a client tells his attorney that he's really guilty. the rest of the book is how she deals with it, and who proves what, and how they find the evidence.
Helpful Score: 1
Like all her books, this one is a grabber. Better get it now!
This attorney finds out the truth about her client and sets out to prove it.
Helpful Score: 1
Legal thriller, with a female lawyer, working for a millionaire businessman, accused of murdering a homeless man.
During the biggest snowstorm in the history of Philadelphia, the jury is out. The defense is confident of a verdict of not guilty, but then client Elliot Steere admits to his council that he is a murderer. Marta Richter does not take this revelation happily. In fact, she's so outraged that she wants her client's secret revealed no matter what it does to her career. Steere isn't about to let her blow his chances, and with powerful connections, money, and muscle, he works from his jail cell to silence Marta and her colleagues before the sequestered jury makes a decision. If readers like soap opera?type cliffhangers at the end of each chapter, a plot that reads like a TV script, and a little gory violence here and there, they will like this book. The characters are well thought out, but most often sequences of the story unfold implausibly, as when Marta hunts for clues in her client's house and boat. Attorney Bennie Rosato, the feisty character from a previous Scottoline novel (Legal Tender, LJ 7/96), makes an appearance here but is not very involved in the plot except for a "save-the-day" routine in the last few chapters. This is essential for readers already hooked on Scottoline, but don't start with this one when introducing her to readers.
LIBRARY JOURNAL REVIEW
LIBRARY JOURNAL REVIEW
MARILYN C. (Tx-Blaize) -
"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."
- worldcat.org
All women lawyers at Benny Rosato's Law Office. Benny has to keep reminding her lawyers that they are paid to defend their clients. This is one of my favorite series.
This is one of my favorite books in the series.
- worldcat.org
All women lawyers at Benny Rosato's Law Office. Benny has to keep reminding her lawyers that they are paid to defend their clients. This is one of my favorite series.
This is one of my favorite books in the series.
Love Scottoline
Marie M. (malm548) - , reviewed Rough Justice (Rosato & Associates, Bk 5) on + 121 more book reviews
good book keeps you interested from the beginning
After the jury begins deliberating, the firm's client confesses that he is guilty, but it appears that he is going to be found not guilty. An exciting page turner.
If you check out my other postings you'll see I love Lisa Scottoline's ability to plot a good mystery thriller without resorting to the blood, guts and gore genre.
"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 with both the jury and the worst blizzard to hit Philadelphia in decades, Marta will learn that the search for justice isn't only rough - it can also be deadly."
"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 with both the jury and the worst blizzard to hit Philadelphia in decades, Marta will learn that the search for justice isn't only rough - it can also be deadly."
ABOUT A FEMALE DEFENSE LAWYER WHO DISCOVERS THE GUILT OF HER CLIENT. ENGROSSING.
Barbara F. (daylilylover) reviewed Rough Justice (Rosato & Associates, Bk 5) on + 768 more book reviews
From the back: Criminal lawyer Marta Richter is hours awayfrom 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, Mart discovers the chilling truth about her client's innocence...
From cover:
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 with both the jury and the worst blizzard to hit Philadelphia in decades, Marta will learn that the search for justice isn't only rough--it can also be deadly.
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 with both the jury and the worst blizzard to hit Philadelphia in decades, Marta will learn that the search for justice isn't only rough--it can also be deadly.
Criminal lawer Marta Richter is hours away from winning an acquittal for her client, millionar business Elliot Steere, on trial for the murder of a homeless man who had tried to car jack him. But as the juty begins deliberations, Marta discovers the chilling truth about her client's innocence. Taking justince into her own hands she furiously set out to prove the truth with the help of to young associates. In an excrcuciating game of beat the clock with both the jury and worst blizzard to hit Philadelphia in decades, Marta will learn the search for justice isn't only rough-it can also be deadly.
title author and isbn same, the cover is different
