Defenseless

Celeste Marsella

Random House Publishing Group, Sep 30, 2008 - Fiction - 416 pages

They’re overworked, underpaid, and unstoppable: four young women in a big-city attorney general’s office. But when best friends Marianna, Laurie, Shannon, and Beth find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, it’s not just their careers that are in danger—it’s their lives.

It’s after midnight when a young coed’s body is thrown from a car—right before their eyes. When their boss finds out that their presence at the scene might jeopardize the prosecution, Marianna takes the fall, exiled to a job inside an ivy-walled private college—where the murdered girl had been a student. Suddenly Marianna is in the eye of the storm alone as a vicious killer strikes again…and again. With no one to trust on either side of the law except themselves and a secretive ex-cop, Marianna, Laurie, Shannon, and Beth will have to join all their smarts, savvy, and loyalty to stop the killer from taking one of their own.…

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User Review  - Samra Muslim - Goodreads

Chick-lit packaged as mystery! You haven't missed much if you haven't read this book ...

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User Review  - Julie Johnson - Goodreads

It took me a while to get into this book but once I did I loved it & could hardly put it down. I loved the gritty heroine in this book & her band of friends, & the perspective they have of working in ...

About the author

Celeste Marsella received her B.A. from New York University and her J.D. from New York Law School. She is a member of four state bars—New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Florida—and has actively practiced in all except Florida. In Rhode Island, where her daughter was born, she worked in a gritty criminal law firm. Celeste now writes full time and is currently at work on her next novel in this series, forthcoming from Dell.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Defenseless
• Author: Celeste Marsella
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2008
• ISBN: 0440244668, 9780440244660
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Legal; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense