Everywhere That Mary Went

A Rosato & Associates Novel

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

In New York Times best-selling author Lisa Scottoline's electrifying, Edgar-nominated first novel in her Rosato & Associates series, a young lawyer at an all-female law firm must stay one step ahead of a stalker who has a deadly agenda.

Mary DiNunzio has been slaving away for the past eight years trying to make partner in her cutthroat Philadelphia law firm. She's too busy to worry about the crank phone calls she's been getting - until they fall into a sinister pattern. The phone rings as soon as she gets to work, then as soon as she gets home.

Mary can't shake the sensation that someone is watching her, following her every move. The shadowboxing turns deadly when her worst fears are realized, and she has to fight for something a lot more important than partnership: her life.

©1993 Lisa Scottoline (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers

LIsa Scottoline's first legal thriller (1993)

I purchased this novel and several others during Audible's first in a series sale last month.

Attorney Lisa Scottoline's legal thrillers, all 30+ of them, include a lot of discussion of feelings, a bit of Catholic guilt, female lawyers, and at least one legal case. Of those I have read or listened to there is at least some feeling of chick lit, really good chick lit!. Mary DiNunzio, the protagonist of this one, has lost her husband to murder and her best male friend to murder, both literally road kill. There is a nice twist near the end which identifies the culprit. Mary and Judy Carrier decide to form their own legal firm at the end of Everywhere That Mary Went. Nevertheless, this is the weakest of Scottoline's legal thrillers, so don't this let this novel discourage you from others of her novels. Narration is better than the novel.

where's Mary?

the book was good. it bogged down bit in the middle, but Scottalini's drawing tiny treads together toward the end always makes her books a lot of fun.

Hard to listen to

I've read these books years ago. I decided to try the audio version, This narrator is horrible... I couldn't wait to get to the end.... It was hard to get through.

Enjoyable

Relatively realistic depiction of legal practice mixed with silly murder plot. Very readable and hard to put down until you get to the unwrapping of the mystery, which is silly.

After listening to this series being read by Barbara Rosenblat, this was a disappointment

The characters all sounded the same, rather nasally. I found myself thinking more about the narration than the story itself. I can’t decide if I didn’t really enjoy the story because of the writing or the narration.

Not my favorite of this seried

I have not read these books in order. That could be why this one was not as enjoyable for me as subsequent stories.

The character development of Mary and Judys friendship is well done and in this story you really get a sense of how deep that friendship is. The plot twists are well done and the killer reveal is a suprise. So overall very worth reading.

the performance is perfect. I never got confused as to who was speaking. The voices we distinct and well acted.

Is anything going to happen?

After reading/listening to a number of Rosato & DeNunzio novels I wanted to go back and read the first two installments, as an “origin story” as future books often make reference to events and characters from the beginning. Ouch, I dare say if I had started this series at the beginning, I might have trashed it and never looked back, and would’ve missed out on some good reading. “Everywhere” is a slow, plodding, uninteresting introduction to Mary DeNunzio. I am currently 5.5 hours into a 9+ hour listen and NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. Even Judy is boring. Hugely disappointing.
Perhaps I am spoiled by the excellent narration of Kate Burton, but the weird, cartoonish male voices offered by Terri Schnaubelt all sound like a (fake) cringeworthy “Guido” all sound the same and I couldn’t discern one from the next. Such lo quality narration made me focus more on the writing and I couldn’t believe it was Lisa Scottoline. Uninspired, poorly written, even the “action scenes” are sad and long-toothed, halfway through I no longer care about Mary’s origin story. I can’t imagine I will finish this. My advice, if you’re looking for backstory to the R & D characters, skip this one and just use your imagination to fill in the gaps.

As usual a terrific Mary DeNunzio story!!

What a great story with so many twists and turns. Heart goes out to Mary DeNunxio😌

"Meh"

Not her best work. Mary is meh, the story is meh, the outcome, predictable. I finished it because I started reading the series after Mary makes Partner at Rosato and Associates, so I felt obligated to finish, but honestly, you could skip this one!

Easy story to listen to

I drive a lot between my rural home and the nearest shopping. This was an easy listen where there a many interruptions and I could remember what happened before. Some surprises and intrigue.