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Date Posted: 15:02:58 04/24/02 Wed
Author: mt. healthy mountaineer
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ANHOW Review of Books: "The Vendetta Defense" by Lisa Scottoline

Published: 2001 by HarperCollins
Genre: legal thriller

I have a special place for Lisa Scottoline. I feel as though I've had a part in her blossoming career as a writer. When I worked in the used book store I found her 2nd novel(Final Appeal), read it and loved it. I recommended it to a lot of customers and soon there were a number of us on the prowl for her first novel. I found it, read it and it quickly made the rounds. Since then, I've read every one of her 8 novels. I've been pleased with all but one.

Fortunately, this is one of the 7 good ones. The legal case involved concerns the defense of a little old man from the south side of Phialadelphia who kills the little old man who killed his wife 60 years ago back in Italy. The book is dripping with Italian "old school" culture, especially the concept of a family vendetta, what Americans might call a feud. The book's strength is the flashback scenes in which the reader gets to see how the vendetta bagan back in Italy. The ethnic culture of Philly's "Little Italy" is also interesting, but that has always been a staple of Scottoline's books. The legal action is okay, but not all that dramatic. That, I believe, is her intention, though since the story of the vendetta is the focus of the plot.

All in all, a solid book. Not great, but not bad. I give it a "B-"

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