Dead Ringer

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

Lately, Bennie Rosato has her eye focused firmly on the bottom line, especially since she has three dedicated young associates and a very pregnant secretary on her payroll; so she takes a professional risk, charging into a class action lawsuit that could make, or break, her career.

Then her wallet goes missing. And Bennie's life goes crazy.

Someone is posing as the outspoken, blue-eyed, blond attorney and is wreaking havoc around town, apparently determined to destroy everything Bennie loves. Only one person can pull off this double deception: Bennie's identical twin sister, Alice Connelly. But as far as Bennie knows, Alice left Philly long ago and never looked back.

When events escalate into murder, the maverick lawyer realizes that the stakes are far greater than she feared. But Bennie Rosato refuses to be anyone's victim. To find the killer, she'll plunge headfirst into a life-and-death investigation that will bring her face to face with an evil darker, yet more familiar, than anything before.

©2003 Lisa Scottoline (P)2003 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Rosenblat's performance leaves the listener gasping for breath....Witty." (AudioFile)

great, as always

Lisa Scottoline always captures my interest from the very beginning and entertains me all the way through! An excellent addition to her collection!

Amazing narrator!

Rosenblat makes the whole story come alive. She does all the accents and voices tremendously!

Great book, narrating good except ...

This was a really good book, although I got lost in some of the characters because they seemed to come out of nowhere and with the names I couldn't tell if they were men, women or gay or what. The narration was good except I wished they had given the reader something to wet her palate ... it kept sounding as if she had a dry throat or spit in her mouth (Okay, it may be JUST ME!) ... but overall, an enjoyable book.

narrator sucks but….

its a great story… all the reviews are true - the narrator, Barbara Rosenblatt, is nauseating- however if u listen at 1,5x speed - its not terrible

Boorrring!

If you're looking for a good mystery..keep looking. If you want an insight as to Bennie's principles, loyalties and determination to keep her lawfirm afloat, then listen away.

Sleeper

Would you try another book from Lisa Scottoline and/or Barbara Rosenblat?

Scottoline has made the main character come off as a ditz and Barbara's reading has been so boring that I am falling asleep. It sounds like she is either smoking a cigarette or sucking on a piece of candy. I doubt that I would try another Scottoline book .

What did you like best about this story?

The story would be good, but with the main charter being such a ditz it is hard to following the story

What didn’t you like about Barbara Rosenblat’s performance?

Is sounds like she is smoking a cigarette or sucking on a candy. It is hard to differenciate between characters.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Dead Ringer?

Most of the scenes where she has the main character doing things she isn't suppose to be doing or making her sound stupid

Not plausible

This story didn't flow together well. Additionally the narrators voice was flawed for the chapter she was playing. Overall I'd use my credit in a different place if I could choose again.

Good story, Horrible reader

One of the most frustrating things about this story is the reader. I can hear every slurp, sniffle and gasp and it really takes away from the story itself. I enjoyed the story but I would caution any listener that is sensitive to pronunciation, timing, and throat noises, pick up something else. It makes me wonder if anyone checked this piece for sound quality before releasing.

drowning in detail

should have gone with the abridged version. The amount of detail and description caused me to fast forward through large chunks of this book, in search of plot advancement. The end is good, but I almost gave up before I got there.

Couldn't wait for it to end

This book was a disappoi nt on several levels. I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be a comedy or a mystery. The snide and flip references to what were supposed to be serious issues were grating and annoying. There was so much filler and so little plot. The narrator was good but the constant joking asides felt like a disconnect with what I thought was supposed to be a serious story. The prose was very good but sadly that was not rough to make up for the rest of the book's deficiencies.