Accused by Lisa Scottoline

This is another of Lisa Scottoline's Rosato and Associate's novels. Bennie Rosato is the senior partner of her law firm, and her associate, Mary DiNunzio, has just been made a partner. This story is about a case of Mary's. The firm is hired by a young 13 year old girl to free a man who she feels has been wrongly imprisoned for the murder of her sister 6 years ago. The girl's parents strongly oppose the girls actions and do everything they can to get Mary off the case. But Mary is determined to see it through. Along the way Mary deals with issues in her own life as well as handling the case on by herself.

It's a good story, interlaced with bits of humor particularly involving Mary's Italian family and their old friends. I enjoyed reading about how Mary tried to solve the case and I liked that I hadn't anticipated the outcome. There's not a lot of interaction among the women of the Rosato firm in this book as there has been in past Rosato books, but Mary was still a believable character with doubts about both how she deals with the case and about whether she should marry her boyfriend, Anthony. I thought Anthony seemed a little unreal, but maybe I'd learn more about him in other Rosato novels. I've read and enjoyed a couple others in the past, but don't remember his character.

At any rate, this was an enjoyable, quick read, a fun mystery without much of the gore that's often found in other murder mysteries.