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Look Again

Lisa Scottoline
St. Martin's Press (2009)
ISBN 9780312380724
Reviewed by Narayan Radhakrishnan for RebeccasReads (5/09)

The 16th novel by Lisa Scottoline is really, R-E-A-L-L-Y different from the author’s previous novels. Firstly, after 15 novels with Harper Collins, Scottoline a.k.a. the female Grisham changes publishers and opts to go with St. Martins; secondly this is a novel that is not a legal thriller, but one which addresses a most complex legal issue; and thirdly, there are no lawyer/judge protagonists in the novel.

Having read, relished and enjoyed all Scottoline novels till date, I expected the usual chills and thrills, the ash of suspense laced with wit from Scottoline. But “Look Again” packs an unexpected punch. I never thought I would be describing a Scottoline work as “emotionally charged.” Frankly, Lisa Scottoline invades the Jodi Picoult style of popular fiction and presents a unique question of law and morals, for which one can never find a solid and correct answer.

Ellen Gleeson is a reporter for a newspaper that just might soon give her the pink slip. She is also the doting mother of Will, her adopted child. However, when a flyer about a missing child catches her attention, the world as she knows it slowly changes. Ellen realizes that the missing child bears an uncanny resemblance to her boy. The reporter in her jumps to action…but the mother in Ellen wants to refrain from opening a can of worms. But the reporter triumphs and Ellen gets in contact with Carol Braverman the mother of the missing Timothy Braverman. What follows is an emotionally charged story, and at the same time an exciting suspenseful story of two women and their rights over a child.

A grandiose legal novel...sans a legal thriller, Scottoline’s “Look Again” is sure thought provoking and suspensefully disturbing.  Highly, highly recommended.

 

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