Lisa Scottoline


Lisa Scottoline is an American author of legal thrillers.

Life

Born in Philadelphia, Scottoline attended Lower Merion High School and then went on to earn a B.A. in English magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, then graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She clerked for judges at the state and federal appellate courts and later became a litigator at Dechert in Philadelphia. After the birth of her daughter, she left the law firm and started writing. Final Appeal received an Edgar Award, for excellence in crime fiction. She has since written 30 bestselling novels, including Look Again and Don't Go, both which reached number two on The New York Times Best Seller list. She has served as President of the Mystery Writers of America and won many other honors. Her novels have been translated into 30 languages and she has 30 million copies in print.
Since March 2007, Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella have been writing the "Chick Wit" column for The Philadelphia Inquirer. A collection of those humorous nonfiction columns has been published in a series of bestselling books co-written with her daughter Francesca Serritella, the first of which is entitled Why My Third Husband Will Be A Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman and published on November 24, 2009.

Books

Rosato & Associates

  1. Everywhere That Mary Went
  2. Legal Tender
  3. Rough Justice
  4. Mistaken Identity
  5. Moment of Truth - #10 on NYT Bestseller list and on the list for six weeks.
  6. The Vendetta Defense - #7 on NYT Bestseller list and on the list for five weeks.
  7. Courting Trouble - #8 on NYT Bestseller list and on the list for three weeks.
  8. Dead Ringer - #5 on NYT Bestseller list and on the list for four weeks.
  9. Killer Smile - #14 on NYT Bestseller list and on the list for two weeks.
  10. Lady Killer - #4 on NYT Bestseller list and on the list for four weeks.
  11. Think Twice - #4 on NYT Bestseller list and on the list for three weeks.

    Rosato & DiNunzio Novels

  17. Standalone fiction

Appeared in the 2007 Reader's Digest Select Editions Volume 294 - #6.