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Lisa Scottoline Author Read Alikes November 23, 2014 |
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If you enjoy reading books by Lisa Scottoline try these authors.
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Trader of Secrets : A Paul Madriani Novel
by Steve Martini
While in Paris to find a former NASA employee whose name has been found on papers left in his nemesis's apartment, Paul Madriani stumbles upon a plot to harness the destructive forces of nature using stolen technology that foreign powers will stop at nothing to get their hands on.
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False Testimony
by Rose Connors
A defense lawyer struggles with her ethics throughout two cases involving a U.S. senator suspected in the disappearance of a female staffer and a second client who is on trial for the murder of a priest.
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Lying With Strangers
by Jonnie Jacobs
Eighteen-year-old Chloe Henderson is horrified when her boyfriend robs a convenience store, killing two people in the process, but when she helps him escape her life intersects with that of another woman affected by the crime.
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Terminal city : A Novel
by Linda A. Fairstein
Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper and detective Mike Chapman confront Grand Central Terminal's dark secrets as well as their own changing relationship
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Law of Gravity : A Novel
by Stephen Horn
Investigating the disappearance of a Senate Intelligence Committee staffer in the hope of salvaging his reputation, former White House lawyer Philip Barkley teams up with a retired detective and follows a trail of murder victims dating back generations.
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Dreams of the Dead
by Perri O'Shaughnessy
Taking the case of a woman whose son went missing years earlier under circumstances Nina suspects may be linked to her former lover Paul, investigator Nina Reilly sets about charming a professional exhumer who requires her help in retrieving a valuable manuscript.
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The Terrorist Next Door : A David Gold Mystery
by Sheldon Siegel
When an unknown terrorist group demands the release of a University of Chicago graduate student whose plan to set off a bomb at the Art Institute was thwarted at the last minute, Detectives Gold and Battle must stop them from shutting down a major U.S. city.
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Identical
by Scott Turow
Based loosely on the myth of Castor and Pollux, this electrifying novel of murder, sex and betrayal follows Cass as he, released from prison after serving 25 years for the murder of his girlfriend, is subjected to a re-investigation of her murder, while his identical twin brother Paul runs for office.
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Theodore Boone Deluxe Box Set
by John Grisham
Thirteen-year-old aspiring lawyer Theodore Boone makes his mark on the legal system and helps solve a murder, an abduction, and a theft
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The Thrill of Victory : and, Tomorrow's Promise
by Sandra Brown
Collects two romances, including "The Thrill of Victory," in which tennis star Stevie Corbett finds an ally in journalist Judd Mackie when she collapses on the tennis court from anxiety after learning she has tumors that might or might not be cancerous
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The Cinderella Murder : An Under Suspicion Novel
by Mary Higgins Clark
A first collaboration between the MWA Grand Master and the best-selling author of the Ellie Hatcher series follows the launch of a reality television series for unsolved crimes and a case involving a murdered UCLA student.
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Fast Track
by Julie Garwood
Devastated by the health setbacks of the father who lovingly raised her alone, Cordelia learns a shocking truth about her mother and enlists the help of her best friend's hotel magnate older brother, Aiden, who is being targeted by a powerful congressman.
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Face Value
by Michael A. Kahn
When her genius Asperger's syndrome colleague rules a friend's suspicious death a homicide in spite of police opinions, St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold investigates clues that lead her into the heart of a dark criminal enterprise
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Jail Coach
by Hillary Bell Locke
When a high-profile actor is sentenced to a brief prison term for a second DUI offense, corporate insurance loss minimizer Jay Davidovich hires a jail coach to ensure that the actor will be able to return to work upon his release, a decision that pits him against the coach's inner circle of survivors and hustlers.
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Capitol Betrayal: A Novel
by William Bernhardt
Serving in the White House Special Counsel office when a foreign dictator infiltrates the U.S.'s ballistic missile computer system, Ben Kincaid races against time to prevent a nuclear crisis while the vice president calls the president's sanity into question.
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The Deepest Secret : A Novel
by Carla Buckley
Wishing for a normal life after being diagnosed with a rare medical condition that makes him lethally sensitive to light, 13-year-old Tyler roams the nighttime streets to observe the neighborhood family lives he covets only to become a key witness in the disappearance of a young girl.
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House Rules : A Novel
by Jodi Picoult
Unable to express himself socially but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior.
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Love You More
by Lisa Gardner
When state police trooper Tessa Leoni claims to have killed her husband in self-defense, Detective D.D. Warren must investigate a difficult case when she discovers that Tessa's 6-year-old daughter is also missing.
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Command Authority
by Tom Clancy
The rise of a powerful new authority figure in Russia is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past with unexpected ties to President Jack Ryan. Co-written by the best-selling author of The Gray Man series.
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Roadside Crosses
by Jeffery Deaver
When a troubled teenager is pushed over the edge by cyber-bullies, he plots a violent revenge for which he plants roadside crosses throughout the Monterey peninsula, a situation for which body-language expert Kathryn Dance and Monterey County Sheriff's Senior Deputy Michael O'Neil race against the clock to stop the youth from acting on his rage.
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Last to Die : A Novel
by Tess Gerritsen
Visiting "Rat" Perkins at Evenson boarding school, Maura Isles is astonished to learn that all of his classmates are survivors of violence, a discovery that coincides with Jane Rizzoli's investigation into the murder of a boy's foster family.
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Darkfall
by Dean R. Koontz
A city, gripped by a harsh winter, is terrorized by an exceedingly violent murderer who kills four people over four days and presents an unusually difficult case to authorities.
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The Book of Lies
by Brad Meltzer
Unexpectedly meeting his long-lost father at the moment of a brutal attack by a would-be killer bearing the ancient mark of the biblical Cain, Cal Harper is thrust into a high-stakes pursuit of a fortuitous enigmatic weapon that links him to the Bible's first killing as well as the murder that inspired the creation of the comic-book hero Superman.
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In The Name of Honor
by Richard North Patterson
Two prestigious military families are shattered when general's son Brian, a traumatized Iraq veteran, shoots and kills his former commanding officer under circumstances he claims were in self-defense, a case that also calls the victim's wife into question. (suspense). By the best-selling author of The Spire.
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Up in Honey's Room
by Elmore Leonard
Secretly passing intelligence through a spy ring while running a butcher shop in Detroit, German-born Walter Schoen becomes estranged from his long-suffering wife and is targeted by Marshals serviceman Carl Webster, who believes Schoen is hiding an escaped prisoner of war
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You Don't Want to Know
by Lisa Jackson
After spending the past two years in and out of Seattle mental institutions, unable to remember the details of her 2-year-old son Noah's disappearance, Ava returns to the family estate and, secretly visiting a hypnotist to restore her memories, discovers that her son may still be alive.
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Money to Burn
by James Grippando
The author of When Darkness Falls and Lying With Strangers returns to a taut new thriller of greed and murder set in the high-stakes atmosphere of New York's Wall Street.
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The Day Trader
by Stephen W. Frey
After Augustus McKnight reaps the rewards of a clever online investment, he rushes home to tell his wife, only to discover that she wants a divorce, but when she is brutally murdered, leaving him as the sole beneficiary of her million-dollar life insurance policy, he delves into his job as a full-time day trader and is unexpectedly plunged into an intricate game of intrigue, manipulation, and revenge.
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Eye of the Beholder
by Merline Lovelace
Returning home to Oklahoma after a tragic accident claims the life of Ty, her best friend, USAF Captain Miranda Morgan is at the mercy of Ty's billionaire father, who, believing she is responsible for Ty's death, will stop at nothing to punish her, forcing her to find help in the most unlikely of places.
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The Offering : A Novel
by Angela Elwell Hunt
"From bestselling author Angela Hunt, the heart-wrenching story of a young mother who unknowingly gave away her own child after serving as a surrogate for a childless couple. Amanda Hocking is a typical young wife and mother struggling to make ends meet.She decides to help a childless family by becoming their gestational surrogate, hoping to achieve some financial stability of her own. After a few false starts, Amanda finally gets pregnant with another couple's embryo, but just as she is entering her final month of pregnancy, her soldier husband is killed. Devastated, Amanda goes through the motions trying to regain her equilibrium and raise her daughter alone. Three years later, Amanda finally sees a photograph of the child she carried for the other family. He looks remarkably familiar; is it possible she gave birth to her own biological baby and unknowingly gave him away? When a DNA test confirms her mistake, Amanda must choose between the desires of her grieving heart and what is best for the childshe has never truly known"
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