Moment of Truth
Written by Lisa Scottoline
Narrated by Kate Burton
4/5
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About this audiobook
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 hid 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 coffin, he hires the most inexperienced lawyer he can find, a reluctant rookie by the name of Mary Di Nunzio, employed at the hot Philadelphia firm of Rosato and Associates.
Unfortunately for Jack, hiring Mary may turn out to be his only mistake.
Though inexperienced, Mary doubts Jack's confession and begins to investigate the crime. Her ethics and instincts tell her she can't defend a man who wants only one thing - to convict himself. Or can she? Smarter, gutsier, and more determined than she has any right to be, Mary decides to stock with the case. With help from the most unexpected sources, she sets out to prove what really happened - because as any lawyer knows, a case is never as simple as it seems.
And nothing is ever certain until the final moment of truth.
Lisa Scottoline
Lisa Scottoline is the New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels including Look Again, Lady Killer, Think Twice, Save Me and Everywhere That Mary Went. She also writes a weekly column, “Chick Wit,” with her daughter Francesca Serritella, for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The columns have been collected in several volumes, including Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog and My Nest Isn’t Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space. Scottoline has won an Edgar® Award and Cosmopolitan magazine’s “Fun Fearless Fiction” Award, and she served as the president of Mystery Writers of America. She teaches a course on justice and fiction at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma mater. She lives in the Philadelphia area.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I am usually a fan or her books but was disappointed by this one. I would suggest reading one of newer books over this one.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Early in the series and it is nice to see an imperfect lawyer. A real page turner that kept you on your toes until the end.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The author is compared to [author: John Grisham], and I can see the similarity - being a book about lawyers, but Grisham writes much more exciting and intriguing books.I enjoyed this book and for most of it found myself eager to read more. But as I closed in on the end I started to get bored. While the book tried to be more and more exciting I found it tiresome, as "the plot thickened". There were too many layers to "who did it", which would have been fine if the last few layers had been shed slowly. But it was only in the last few chapters that the truth was even hinted at. There wasn't enough foreshadowing and you never felt "oh, that was obvious" as the truth was revealed. I also felt myself wanting to scream at the blind cops, unwilling to investigate things and preferring to pass them off as fiction.I doubt I'll read the author again, unless I buy their books in a cheap back (like I did with this one). It's not really my type of book. But then I did enjoy it - it certainly captivated me for a week or so.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is wonderful and I am so glad I found it in the library. I needed a book, and liking the author, Lisa Scottoline, I decided to try this novel,. What I would have missed if not borrowing it. I hate books that allow me to know the plot and I get bored easily with that format. Moment of Truth had turns on every page that had me thinking about who the killer was constantly. At the end of the book, I was wrong. Not to give away the perpetrator, I would recommend that you buy the book and discover yourself what a wonderful plot Ms Scottoline has laid out. Attoreney Jack Newlin comes home one evening and finds his wife murdered. Thinking he knows who did it, he fakes that he did it. The plot thickens and keeps you turning each page to find out whom Mr Newlin thinks it is. After being wrong several times, I just gave up wondering and enjoyed the adventure in helping rookie Mary DiNunzio find the killer. this is not a heavy book and the antics of Ms DiNunzio is a fun part of the plot. Don't miss reading this book if you enjoy any adventure, for this takes you on one the entire time.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When attorney Jack Newlin discovers his murdered wife's body, he thinks his daughter killed her and he confesses rather than see her go to jail. He then hires inexperienced attorney Mary DiNunzio to defend him. But Mary believes he is innocent and decides to prove it, placing herself, Jack, and Jack's daughter, Paige, in danger. Can Mary find the killer before she becomes the next victim? This legal thriller is a fun read. The characters, for the most part, are well written and come to life, especially Mary and her family, although I got tired of reading about Mary's Catholic guilt complex. Jack, and his daughter, Paige, are also well written, Paige especially, who, as a teen model, could have been a cliché, but instead she is a sad, complex, character. The secondary characters are also well developed, especially Lou and cops Brinkley and Kovich. The plot had enough twists and turns that the identity of the real murderer was a complete surprise. This is a good book for fans of legal thrillers.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When Jack Newlin comes home to find his wife dead on their elegant dining room floor, he's convinced he knows who has killed her. He sets out to stage the murder so that he appears to be guilty. To hammer the final nail in his coffin, he hires the most inexperienced lawyer he can find: Mary DiNunzio of Rosato and Associates.Unfortunately for Jack, hiring Mary might be his biggest mistake. Inexperienced she might be, but Mary soon discovers that instead of defending a guilty client claiming to be innocent, she defending an innocent client claiming to be guilty. I give this story a B+!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I had difficulty with the first part, where the obnoxious lawyer is trying to figure out how to save his spoiled model daughter from the murder rap. But when the book shifts to focus more on the Rosato lawyers and the cops it picks up the pace. One of Scottoline's tactics is to keep a whole lot of characters in reserve, so Mary, who is a minor character in a few other books, takes the starring role in this one, and many of the other characters take on greater or lesser roles depending on where the author is trying to get to. It feels rather like the characters are all actors, each demanding a few minutes in the limelight; but it's a nice touch, and makes picking up more books by the same author more interesting.This is only the second book by Scottoline that I've read, and they both had rather ludicrous romantic subplots - perhaps a nod to pick up some female readers who wouldn't be interested in Grisham? The legalities of the case don't really play much of a role, so it's hard to really call it a legal thriller, but the real thriller parts are well done, and I was completely surprised by the identity of the murderer. I'll be reading more by her.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Top marks for turning a murder mystery/police procedural on its head, in that we have a murder victim who pretty much everyone is happy to see dead, and a queue of people trying to claim responsibility. Do the police take the easy route and accept the first confession, or dig deeper? There was more to this novel, and the murder itself, that immediately meets the eye, and I liked the way the author built up personality through dialogue. Some great characters - the two detectives who behave like an old married couple, and the over-the-top divorce lawyer. Some eye-opening insider stuff on the legal trade - particularly the fact that some firms charge clients for time spent by two lawyers discussing....the client's bill. Outrageous but presumably true!Some elements of the plot - particularly the later scenes at the Italians' home - were scarcely believable, but all good fun in the end.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was the second time I read this book, and I am surprised that I read it 2x. It wasn't until I was 75% complete that I realized that I had read it before. It wasn't really memorable to me, and I didn't think it was that exciting or necessarily believable.