Early on, in Lisa Scottoline's gripping "Mistaken Identity", attorney Bennie Rosato reminds her associates that a defense lawyer doesn't seek justice. Justice is secondary to, if not in conflict with, loyalty to the client. As the novel progresses, however, Bennie finds her own advice hard to swallow because the client, who may or may not be her identical twin that she never knew existed, is a devious and dangerous woman, accused of murdering a policeman. Later in the book, one of Bennie's legal associates, takes boxing lessons. The advice given to her by her trainer is that if you punish the body long enough, the head will fall. This advice goes further than anyone involved in the case would have imagined. Punishing the prosecutor's case, and dogged investigation, would bring justice while maintaining loyalty--to a degree. To me, these were the central points of this tense and intense novel.