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Lisa Scottoline
Mysteries & Thrillers Pavilion
4-4:30 pm
Book Signing
2-3 pm
All of Lisa Scottoline’s books draw on her experience as a trial lawyer as well as her judicial clerkships in the state and federal justice systems. She wrote her first novel, Everywhere That Mary Went (1994), while serving as an administrative law clerk. She has now written more than 11 legal-suspense best-selling novels, with 9 million copies in print and published in 23 countries. She is a recipient of the Edgar Award for her second novel, Final Appeal (1995), and her most recent novel is Dirty Blonde (HarperCollins, 2006). Currently serving as a board member of the Mystery Writers of America, Ms. Scottoline is a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she teaches Justice and Fiction, a course she created. She lives in the Philadelphia area.