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When prosecutor Vicki Allegretti arrives at a rowhouse to meet a confidential informant, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time -- and is almost shot to death. She barely escapes with her life, but cannot save the two others gunned down before her disbelieving eyes. Stunned and heartbroken, Vicki tries to figure out how a routine meeting on a minor case became a double homicide. Vicki's suspicions take her to Devil's Corner, a city neighborhood teetering on the brink of ruin -- thick with broken souls, innocent youth, and a scourge that preys on both. But the deeper Vicki probes, the more she becomes convinced that the murders weren't random and the killers were more ruthless than she thought. When another murder thrusts Vicki together with an unlikely ally, she buckles up for a wild ride down a dangerous street -- and into the cross-hairs of a conspiracy as powerful as it is relentless. Performed by Barbara Rosenblat

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Thrilling, but also fun, peppered with Scottoline's tart, cheeky wit. -- Philadelphia Inquirer Scottoline's ability to mix humor with serious subject matter, combined with her intense research of inner city drug trafficking and a side plot involving Vicki's love life, make for compelling entertainment. -- Publishers Weekly Scottoline at her best--chatty but intelligent, biting but respectful...This stand-alone thriller (inspired by a real-life case) makes an entertaining and exciting change of pace. -- Booklist An entertaining page-turner with plenty of twists and turns and a sturdy surprise ending. -- Boston Globe A fast-paced thriller featuring a female lawyer with an ample supply of attitude...The writing is brisk and sassy. -- Time

A fast-paced thriller featuring a female lawyer with an ample supply of attitude...The writing is brisk and sassy. -- Time An entertaining page-turner with plenty of twists and turns and a sturdy surprise ending. -- Boston Globe Scottoline at her best--chatty but intelligent, biting but respectful...This stand-alone thriller (inspired by a real-life case) makes an entertaining and exciting change of pace. -- Booklist Scottoline's ability to mix humor with serious subject matter, combined with her intense research of inner city drug trafficking and a side plot involving Vicki's love life, make for compelling entertainment. -- Publishers Weekly Thrilling, but also fun, peppered with Scottoline's tart, cheeky wit. -- Philadelphia Inquirer

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"LISA SCOTTOLINE is the New York Times bestselling and Edgar award-winning author of 31 novels, the most recent of which is After Anna. She has 30 million copies of her books in print in the United States and has been published in thirty-five countries. Scottoline also writes a weekly column with her daughter, Francesca Serritella, for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and those critically acclaimed stories have been adapted into a series of memoirs. She lives in the Philadelphia area. Named ""the gold standard"" of audiobook narrators and ""a voice of the century"" by AudioFile Magazine, Barbara Rosenblat is one of the most beloved artists in the industry, having won an impressive 8 Audies along with over 40 Earphone Awards and the 2010 Odyssey Medal for Best Audio Production. An accomplished theater, film, and television actress, Rosenblat has been featured on Orange is the New Black and has performed both on Broadway and in London's West End theatre."

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