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Lisa Scottoline

Lisa Scottoline is the New York Times-bestselling author and Edgar Award-winning author of thirty-two novels. She has 30 million copies of her books in print in the United States and has been published in thirty-five countries. After a successful career in corporate law, Scottoline released her first legal thriller, Everywhere that Mary Went, in 1994. Her debut was nominated for an Edgar Award, the most prestigious award given in crime fiction. Her second novel, Final Appeal, won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original in 1995. Since then, she has gone on to write 30 more critically acclaimed novels, and her recent, After Anna, was a #1 bestseller. Scottoline also writes a weekly column with her daughter, Francesca Serritella, for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and those universally beloved stories have been adapted into a series of bestselling memoirs. In addition to writing, Lisa reviews popular fiction and non-fiction, and her reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Lisa has served as President of Mystery Writers of America and has taught a course she developed, "Justice in Fiction" at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma mater. She lives in the Philadelphia area.

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Loyalty jacket What Happened to the Bennetts jacket Eternal jacket Someone Knows jacket After Anna jacket Most Wanted jacket Every Fifteen Minutes jacket Don't Go jacket Come Home jacket Save Me jacket My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space jacket Think Twice jacket Look Again jacket Why My Third Husband Will Be A Dog jacket Lady Killer jacket Daddy's Girl jacket Dirty Blonde jacket Devil's Corner jacket
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