Lisa Scottoline
Lisa Scottoline
Lisa Scottolineis an American author of legal thrillers. According to her website, her last name is pronounced as if it rhymes with fettucine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth1 July 1955
CountryUnited States of America
care difference ethical legal moral stories women
What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.
chickens dogs feed gives home office stop time until walk words work written
I get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get to work in my home office upstairs, and basically, I don't stop until I've written 2,000 words and/or the Stephen Colbert show is over.
dead literary
You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.
albeit both bottom fiction funny hard love memoir true unique
I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.
food love underdog vibe
I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.
morning blessing people
Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.
cat people way
People project all sorts of emotions onto their cats, and cats like it that way.
believe law numbers
don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.
book writing stories
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
animal important
My animals are a really important part of my life,
divorce way lawyer
I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after,
loss healed-you broken
Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.
jobs real men
Alafair Burke's first standalone is a must read! You'll lose yourself in this riveting story of Alice Humphrey, a woman whose nightmare begins when she goes to work at her new gallery job, only to find everything gone—and a murdered man on the floor. You can't guess the plot twists that follow, as Alice's whole word turns upside down and she has to question everyone and everything she thought was real. And the ending is a shocker you'll never see coming.
ocean wave surface
Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.