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Review title: Nod to Laura
Product review: Courting Trouble by Lisa Scottoline continues the story of the all female law firm in Philadelphia led by Bennie Rosato. The protagonist Anne Murphy is the new kid on the Rosato legal team joining Mary DiNunzio and Judy Carrier, and Murphy carries this story quite well. She is a compulsive shopper and is the beautiful model type who fits in more easily with her male counterparts until she gets murdered, well sort of, and then the female bonding starts. The novel is nicely structured and Anne Murphy is likable, but I guessed who the murderer was early on. That's a definite negative, unless the novel has loads of atmosphere to make up for it, which this one doesn't. In addition, the entire murder scene was right out of a novel written in 1943 by Vera Caspary, Laura. Although the plot was different, the murder was absolutely the same. I would have thought that in the acknowledgements or somewhere Scottoline or the publisher would have given a Nod to Laura.
