14 Best Lisa Scottoline Books

Dr. Eric Parrish runs a respected psychiatric unit while struggling with a crumbling marriage and single fatherhood. When a troubled teen patient obsessed with a girl becomes a suspect in her murder, Eric’s life unravels, and someone with a sociopath’s patience starts destroying him piece by piece.

On a foggy night, Jake Buckman lets his teenage son take the wheel and they hit a young woman on a curve. Panicked, Jake convinces Ryan to leave the scene, a decision that spirals into lies, blackmail, and a devastating test of family loyalty.

Journalist Ellen Gleeson almost tosses a “Have You Seen This Child?” flyer until she notices the missing boy looks exactly like her adopted son. Digging into the adoption’s paperwork, she uncovers disturbing gaps and risks everything to learn whether her child was stolen.

Army doctor Mike Scanlon returns from Afghanistan after his wife’s sudden death, only to find his baby daughter barely knows him and his home life in ruins. As he uncovers shocking secrets about his marriage, Mike becomes desperate to protect his child and clear his name.

Ambitious associate Mary DiNunzio has spent eight years chasing partnership at a prestigious Philadelphia firm. As anonymous calls and near misses track her every move, she realizes someone is stalking her and must fight both office politics and a relentless hunter to stay alive.

Volunteer lunch mom Rose McKenna faces a split-second choice when an explosion rips through her daughter’s school cafeteria. Branded a villain no matter what she did, Rose must uncover what really happened that day to protect her family and her name.

Years after losing custody of her infant daughter, Maggie is overjoyed when seventeen-year-old Anna suddenly wants to live with her. Seventeen days later Anna is dead and Maggie’s husband is on trial, forcing her to uncover the truth about both of them.

Mary DiNunzio takes on a pro bono case for the estate of an Italian American man who died in a World War II internment camp. As she pushes for reparations, she uncovers evidence that his “suicide” may have been murder and puts herself in a killer’s sights.

Bennie Rosato’s twin, Alice, lures her into the woods and leaves her for dead, then slips into Bennie’s life, stealing her identity, firm, and friends. Fighting to survive, Bennie has to reclaim everything she is while stopping a sister who knows all her weaknesses.

Rosato & Associates newcomer Anne Murphy wakes up on a holiday weekend to news reports that she has been murdered. Realizing someone else died in her place, Anne stays officially “dead” while she and her colleagues hunt the killer and protect a high-profile client.

In 1930s Rome, childhood friends Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro come of age as Mussolini tightens his grip and anti-Jewish laws take hold. Their intertwined love story unfolds against rising fascism, Nazi occupation, and betrayal, following them through war, loss, and the fight to survive.

Mary DiNunzio’s glamorous high school rival comes to her for help escaping an abusive, mob-connected boyfriend, then vanishes. Blamed for not doing enough, Mary launches a one-woman search that endangers her job, her family, and her heart.

A routine drive home from a field hockey game ends in a brutal attempted carjacking that shatters the Bennett family. Whisked into witness protection against a violent drug organization, Jason Bennett watches his life implode and finally decides to take justice into his own hands.

TJ Devlin is the black sheep in a prestigious family law firm, a recovering alcoholic given a token investigator job. When his golden-boy brother confesses he has killed a client, TJ dives into the case, uncovering dangerous secrets that threaten both the business and the family.