A review by snikirich
Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline

2.0

I consider Scottoline kind of a cross between literary fiction and what I term "grocery store" novels. This is one such novel. Fairly well-written, but the plot (and plot twists) are just a little too unbelievable at times. I don't mind suspending disbelief, but this was pushing it. Also, maybe attorneys in Pennsylvania go about reciting exact code sections, while also saying "Pennsylvania Code Annotated Section Three Point Eight..," and maybe they always describe their crimes by "felony in the ___ degree." I'm not sure. But here in Tennessee, we talk like normal people. If we're even going to bother reciting a statute to a layperson, we're going to use the shorthand (TCA, for example), and we're just going to say "Assault 1" or "first degree battery" or whatever, not weird, fancy schmancy talk. So I guess that was a pet peeve. Still, overall, I kept reading. I wanted to know what happened, and aside from the dialogue noted above, the writing was good.