Philadelphia lawyer Bennie Rosato's evil twin takes over her life. No, really. Alice Connelly is in deep trouble. The drug runner she'd hooked up with has gone missing, and she's certain that their supplier, Q, plans to disappear her too. Luckily, she has an escape route: Knock out Bennie Rosato, the identical twin from whom she's been separated since childhood (Dear Ringer, 2003, etc.), take her place long enough to bleed her bank accounts dry, then take a well-financed powder. Though she's a total sociopath, Alice is no dummy, and the plan works like a charm. In short order, she fools Bennie's associates, Mary DiNunzio and Judy Carrier; Bennie's all-important private banker, Marla Stone; and Bennie's ex-lover, Grady Wells. Only self-styled witch queen Fiorella Bucatina, Mary's cousin from Italy, has her doubts. Meanwhile, Bennie, who's been buried alive because soft-hearted Alice doesn't want to shoot anyone with her face, claws from the inside of her casket to free herself as a wild animal claws from the outside. Even after Bennie climbs out of her grave, she'll face a series of daunting challenges because Alice has succeeded so completely in ensconcing herself in her role as Bennie, turning Bennie's buds into her allies, and recruiting them to watch out for Alice that it's bedraggled Bennie, not well-armored Alice, who looks like the imposter. Scottoline (Look Again, 2009, etc.) unfolds her story in breathlessly quick cuts from Alice's plans to Bennie's tribulations to the family problems and amatory complications of Mary, which seem to have wandered in from another, considerably less urgent, installment in the saga of Rosato and Associates. Whenever Bennie seems to be closing in onher goal of avenging herself on Alice for good, Alice finds a countermove that changes the game, even though Bennie's chase becomes less interesting as it grows more straightforward. No matter. You won't believe a word of this tale of cat and mouse, but you won't put it down unfinished either. First printing of 500,000
From the blockbuster New York Times bestselling author of Look Again comes a novel that makes you question the nature of evil: is it born in us or is it bred?
Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connolly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that's what Bennie believes, until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin.
Meanwhile, Alice takes over Bennie's life, impersonating her at work and even seducing her boyfriend in order to escape the deadly mess she has made of her own life. But Alice underestimates Bennie and the evil she has unleashed in her twin's psyche, as well as Bennie's determination to stay alive long enough to exact revenge.
Bennie must face the twisted truth that she is more like her sister Alice than she could have ever imagined, and by the novel's shocking conclusion, Bennie finds herself engaged in a war she cannot win-with herself.
From the blockbuster New York Times bestselling author of Look Again comes a novel that makes you question the nature of evil: is it born in us or is it bred?
Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connolly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that's what Bennie believes, until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin.
Meanwhile, Alice takes over Bennie's life, impersonating her at work and even seducing her boyfriend in order to escape the deadly mess she has made of her own life. But Alice underestimates Bennie and the evil she has unleashed in her twin's psyche, as well as Bennie's determination to stay alive long enough to exact revenge.
Bennie must face the twisted truth that she is more like her sister Alice than she could have ever imagined, and by the novel's shocking conclusion, Bennie finds herself engaged in a war she cannot win-with herself.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940169079333 |
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| Publisher: | Macmillan Audio |
| Publication date: | 03/16/2010 |
| Series: | Rosato & Associates Series , #11 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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