Killer Smile
Written by Lisa Scottoline
Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Mary DiNunzio gets a terrifying telephone call while she's working late, then goes home to find a shadow lurking at her front door. When a lawyer close to her turns up dead, Mary begins to suspect that the case she's been working on -- involving the suicide of an Italian-American in an internment camp during World War II -- may not be ancient history after all.
Performed by Kate Burton
Lisa Scottoline
Lisa Scottoline is the New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels including Look Again, Lady Killer, Think Twice, Save Me and Everywhere That Mary Went. She also writes a weekly column, “Chick Wit,” with her daughter Francesca Serritella, for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The columns have been collected in several volumes, including Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog and My Nest Isn’t Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space. Scottoline has won an Edgar® Award and Cosmopolitan magazine’s “Fun Fearless Fiction” Award, and she served as the president of Mystery Writers of America. She teaches a course on justice and fiction at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma mater. She lives in the Philadelphia area.
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Reviews for Killer Smile
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The main character is obnoxious and unbelievable. If there weren’t a couple laugh-out-loud parts I would totally pan this book, and I have liked other books by this author.
The narrator is great, but what is that crackly noise behind the narration? It’s very distracting. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lisa Scottoline seems to have one type of main character (no matter what her name) and it's growing a bit tiresome after 3 books. Her law knowing people seem to think it is okay to break the law and/or intrude on active investigations (and there are seldom consequences--though the person is usually in jeopardy at least once).
I liked Mary's dedication to history and finding out what happened--though she never did find out what happened to Amadeo's three boats which is what she set out looking for. (She ended up finding something bigger.)
I don't think it is realistic that her boss (also a lawyer) would let Mary spend so many pro bono hours on a case without her also generating some billable hours. Mary also seems to ignore the clients she does have. One even seems ready to leave the firm which Bennie gets wind of and tries to forestall--but even though she threatens Mary, she doesn't follow through with consequences. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Took a long time for me to get into this book, but then it took off towards the end. Not one of her better novels in my opinion.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It may be partially because I grew up in South Philly, but I thought Lisa Scottoline's crime thriller, Killer Smile, was a fun read. It has a decent plot, a fair amount of humor, and is a good light read, perfect for the beach.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mary Dinunzio gets obsessed with the old Brandilini case in which an Italian-American was sent to an internment camp during WW II and committed suicide while interred there.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maybe some of the action sequences don't quite work, but a terrific plot. At first I expected the "blind-date" subplot to be completely gratuitous and irrelevant, but it worked its way into the main story in a way I didn't see coming. Historical touches are lovely and the pacing is good. The surprise witness at the end trial works nicely, although the evidence is a bit far-fetched. One of my favorites of the series.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The story revolves around the theft of an old WWII patent. The lead character was very abrasive.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Listened to library CD. Enjoyed, a good mystery.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Entertaining thriller with female protagonist; plot involves WWII internment camp in Missoula, Montana.