Authors: Lisa Scottoline
Mistaken Identity
For J., new-found,
and for Peter and Kiki, as always
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Bennie Rosato shuddered when she caught sight of the place.
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Bennie stared at the inmate in disbelief. Her twin? “My…”
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Four patrolmen crammed into a booth at Little Pete’s, taking…
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Alice Connolly lay on the thin bed in her cell.
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“Please hold my calls,” Bennie said, and hurried by the…
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Starling “Star” Harald yanked open his locker to get a…
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At home, Bennie set the envelope to the side of…
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Star glanced at the squirrelly dude in the passenger seat.
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“I’ll represent you, on two conditions.” Bennie set her briefcase…
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Alice entered the prison law library, a large gray room…
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Bennie hustled across the gray marble lobby of her office…
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The computer lab at the prison was a shoebox of…
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Mary DiNunzio perched on the edge of her chair at…
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Back at her office, Bennie tore through the Connolly file…
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Judy sat across from Mary in the conference room, typing…
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Bennie barreled down I-95 South as the rain evaporated, supersaturating…
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“Five minutes to lights out!” shouted the guard, and inmates…
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Bennie slipped a finger in the small pink envelope. Inside…
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The first thing Wednesday morning, Bennie hurried along Twentieth Street…
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Alice stood behind the inmates at the computers. Their blue…
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Bennie hiked the ten blocks back to the office, sweating…
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The gym was in North Philadelphia, far from the glistening…
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Bennie had squandered an hour wrangling on the telephone with…
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Alice was waiting in line to use the telephone. In…
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Bennie reached the ground floor of her building with a…
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Mary remembered Joy Newcomb as aloof and reserved at law…
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It was a business day at the prison and the…
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The black plastic hand on the kitchen clock hovered at…
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Bennie cruised the block in the dark before she pulled…
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Mary sat in the conference room in the office, trying…
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Bennie worked in a fever, hauling box after box upstairs…
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“Where have you been, Bennie?” Grady asked, turning from the…
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Joe Citrone wrapped his plaid bathrobe around his lean frame…
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Lou Jacobs had done his share of scuba diving, so…
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“Jesus!” Connolly said. She rose in astonishment on the other…
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The boxing gym was light, with bright sun pouring through…
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Bennie hustled into her office with a freshly poured mug…
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Judy had discovered that a janitor’s closet was really an…
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Bennie’s world lurched to a stop after she hung up…
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Alice didn’t know what came over her but she felt…
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For Bennie the next few hours were a haze of…
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Because it was after the prison’s business hours, Bennie had…
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Early next morning, Judy stood in the sunny conference room…
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“My goodness! Ms. Rosato, you, eh, don’t have an appointment…”
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Fleur-de-lis of ersatz gilt flocked the wallpaper and the room…
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Surf Lenihan sat low inside the black bucket seat of…
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, before…
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Alice lingered at the door to her cell, standing away…
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Surf was hiding by the entrance to Della Porta’s rowhouse…
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Bennie pulled up, confused by the sight. It was the…
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Bennie spent the night driving around the city in the…
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“You dick! You little dick!” Star shoved the squirrelly dude…
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“Bennie, I’m real sorry about your mother,” Lou said, riding…
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The Criminal Justice Center was built as a replacement courthouse…
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Bennie slipped her hands in her skirt pockets and stood…
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Wind sent discarded newspapers rolling along the grimy city curb.
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On the witness stand, Officer Sean McShea wore a navy-blue…
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Bennie took a second to frame her first question. She’d…
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Judy, on a mission, shot from her seat as soon…
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There wasn’t time to go back to the office during…
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On the witness stand, Officer Arthur Reston made a more…
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Bennie began her cross-examination of Officer Reston at the podium…
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Surf caught up with Joe Citrone outside the Eleventh, just…
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Back at her office, Bennie’s associates yammered away while her…
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Bennie hadn’t realized how much the police hated her until…
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The early rays of the morning sun fought their way…
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The next witness for the prosecution, Jane Lambertsen, perched on…
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Bennie stood beside the podium and addressed the young mother.
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It was the lunch break at trial, and Bennie faced…
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