Lisa scottoline bio
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By Leslie Lindsay
She’s back…Lisa Scottoline is here with her 26th—count ‘em—book and it’s a fabulous tail-spin into the juvenile justice system.
One boy. One lawyer. One day. And one shot at justice.
That&#;s DAMAGED (which released yesterday from St. Martin&#;s Press), Lisa Scottoline&#;s 4th in the Rosato & DiNunzio series featuring go-getter lawyer Mary DuNunzio as the tough-but-fair protagonist.
One a deeper level, DAMAGED fryst vatten about year old Patrick O&#;Brien, orphaned by his mother and father and being raised by his elderly (and diabetic) grandfather. Patrick fryst vatten small for his age, shy, dyslexic, and as a result, suffers from anxiety. When Patrick fryst vatten accused of attacking a school aide with a pair of scissors, his grandfather approaches Rosato & DiNunzio for legal assistance.
In Scottoline&#;s trademark fast-fasted and emotional riveting manner, she draws readers right into the eye of the storm, working in legalese and child advocacy issues at a b
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Lisa Scottoline is a #1 bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of 33 novels. Lisa's books are book-club favorites, and she and her daughter Francesca Serritella have hosted an annual Big Book Club Party for over a thousand readers at her Pennsylvania farm, for the past twelve years. Lisa has been President of Mystery Writers of America and she reviews fiction and non-fiction for the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She also writes a weekly column with her daughter for The Philadelphia Inquirer entitled Chick Wit, a witty take on life from a woman’s perspective, which have been collected in a bestselling series of humorous memoirs. Lisa graduated magna cum laude in three years from the University of Pennsylvania, with a B.A. degree in English, and cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she taught Justice & Fiction. She has over 30 million copies of her books in print and is published in over 35 countries. She lives