Devil's Corner

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

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 crosshairs of a conspiracy as powerful as it is relentless.

©2005 Lisa Scottoline (P)2005 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Entertaining and exciting." (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)

Good but…

The narrator was superb and made the book live. The plot was too melodramatic and too far from reality many times. Grew up in federal family - reality got pushed here. Hope later series stronger.

solid Scottoline

Scottoline's returned to her roots -- to the crisp, snappy stuff she started off, and lured me in, with. If you've been turned off lately by the Rosato & Associates saga, which was getting to sound like a bad mix of soap opera and "Cagney & Lacey," come back for this one. Bennie and the Airheads don't show up at all.

Good story but narrator detracted

Good story with insight into society and the interaction of races. The reader gave the two main characters narrative voices that detracted from the characters.

Horrible narration

What made the experience of listening to Devil's Corner the most enjoyable?

The storylinew as good and fast paced - kept me listening to the end despite the narration

How could the performance have been better?

I don't know what this narrator was doing, I see others saying swallowing, sucking on a cough drop - I was trying to decide between chewing gum and licking lips or swallowing. It was distracting and gross. Will NEVER listen to another book with this narrator.

really enjoyed it

I liked the story and the development of the friendship between the two women. I liked that the main character was actually smart

Wonderful story

This book really delivered on interesting story lines and characters. It was more entertaining than I thought a book about a prosecuting attorney could be.

Uneven writing

I purchased this audio because I enjoy hearing Barbara Rosenblatt's voice. I quickly became dismayed at the immaturity of the main character Vicki. She's 28 years old, a lawyer from a prestigious school with previous work history at another prosecuter's office. She was unbelievably impulsive in tracking down the information needed to solver her partner's murder. She had no interest in following standard procedure in the DA's office and yet this is what she always wanted to be? Sorry, I'll be avoiding this writer in the future.

Surprise TurtleReading

The narrator makes this audio book painstakingly slow. horribly mismatched

Don't bother...

I also agree with some of the other reviewers -- I enjoyed Barbara Robsenblatt's voice in Scottoline’s “Daddy’s Girl”, so I purchased this book. Her performance was not the same -- all of her voice changes to fit the characters...and that sucking noise -- ugh.

As far as the story -- it just dragged on and on...I kept waiting for the storyline to 'grab me' and keep me interested ....never happened. The immaturity of the main character was very difficult to get past -- I don’t think I’ll be wasting any more time with this author.

time for Rosenblatt to retire

I agree with many of the other reviews; the story line was interesting, but the narrator messed it up badly. Long, mistimed pauses, constant sucking on a cough drop (nauseating), strange voices for the different characters, and worst of all, she made the heroine sound like an idiot. I will not waste another book credit on a book narrated by Rosenblatt; she just detracts too much from the story.