Dead Ringer: A pulse-pounding legal thriller following two dueling twins, from the New York Times bestselling author

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Pan Macmillan, Nov 30, 2010 - Fiction - 464 pages

'Scottoline fans and first-time readers will love this tale of dueling twins' – Cosmopolitan

They say that blood is thicker than water - but just how far should you go for a sister?

When ace lawyer Bennie Rosato's twin sister returns to Philadelphia, she knows that trouble is on the horizon. At the same time, Bennie's law firm is in trouble, so she takes on a potentially lucrative calss action suit to try to save the day. It could be make or break - both for her family and her firm. Then a mysterious stranger appears just in time to help Bennie in the fight of her life, for her life...

Full of pace, suspense and laugh-out-loud humour, Dead Ringer, by bestselling New York Times author Lisa Scottoline, went on to be chosen as a Costco book club pick, a Cosmopolitan Magazine Hot Summer Pick, a Literary Guild and Mystery Guild main selection, and a Doubleday Book Club, Book of the Month Club.

Praise for Lisa Scottoline

‘Scottoline is a powerhouse’ – David Baldacci

‘Scottoline knows how to keep readers in her grip’ – New York Times

‘Scottoline is one of the very best writers today’ – Michael Connelly

‘Breathlesly paced’ – Sunday Times

'Scottoline writes riveting thrillers that keep me up at night' - Harlan Coben

‘Move over John Grisham, Scottoline writes legal thrillers to die for’ – Daily Mirror

About the author (2010)

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 with an array of disobedient pets, and wouldn’t have it any other way.

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