Discount Price: $7.99
Price fluctuation possible.
How soon does it ship: Normal ship time within one day
Shipping? Absolutely FREE if you qualify for Super Saver Shipping.
Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780060742911
ISBN number: 0060742917
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 448
Printing Date: January 30, 2007
Publishing house: Harper
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 55204
Studio: Harper
Other books you might be interested in perusing:
Editor's Notes and Comments:
Product Description:
Cate Fante is strong and sexy and wears designer suits like overpriced armor. She's just become a judge but leads a dark double life that she hides from everyone.
Her cover is blown when a high-profile case in her courtroom takes a stunning turn. Overnight the tabloids tell her secret, her boyfriend dumps her, and her new career hangs in tatters. But Cate's troubles are only beginning. An enemy no one anticipated sends her running for her life, and she'll have to fight her way back to the truth . . . or die trying.
User popularity level:
Rated by buyers 
-
The dirty blonde of Lisa Scottoline's title is 39-year-old Cate Fante. By day a respected district court judge,Cate prowls Pennsylvania's seedier bars by night in search of hot sex with disreputable strangers. Naturally, Cate's secret doesn't stay a secret for long. Her private life spills onto the front pages shortly after sentencing in a high-profile trial, a case involving the Law and Order-like drama Attorneys@Law. The revelation jeopardizes Cate's professional life as well as a budding romantic relationship. In short order more or less everything that could go wrong in her life does, and Cate finds herself scrambling to save her reputation and, ultimately her life. She's helped along by a devoted cast of characters--mother-figure Val, her secretary; a pair of not-quite competent law clerks; and her old friend Gina, who's left the law business to take care of her autistic son Warren.
Granted, Scottoline's sexy storyline may make this a book you'll want to camouflage with a newspaper on the subway. And granted, Cate's behavior does seem hard to believe at times--both the promiscuous sex and some of her subsequent actions when dealing with its exposure. But the book is a well written and tightly-plotted page-turner, with just the right amount of characterization of the principals for this sort of a novel. Even weighing in at over 400 pages Dirty Blonde is a quick read. I may not remember much of the plot in a month's time, but I was happy to read it, and I'd be happy to read more from Scottoline.
-- Debra Hamel
Rated by buyers -
Dirty Blonde is a very entertaining page turner. Cate is an interesting character. She was not perfect and did have a mean streak. She was real although her insights were at times hard to believe.
The story moves along very well. It also has some interesting side characters such as her friend's son Warren and the moral issue involving whether Cate should sue the Court. As other reviewers said the end was not satisfying. I admit I did not see who did it early on which may only prove I am not as sophisticated a reader. I also thought her trip to her home and the issues concerning her early life was a distraction from the story and did not add much
This was very first Scottoline book and I will read more in the future.
Rated by buyers 
-
The description on the back of the book drew me in to read the novel. After I finished it, I was disappointed in the structure of the novel.
I was interested in Cate's life and the problems that she had created. Her life is a mess and she had no one to blame but herself. The novel seemed to peak way too soon.
The remainder of the book was pretty much tying up loose ends and filler. Too much of the twist/arc is given away too soon.
The novel would have worked better for me if it had been arranged better. Work the mystery longer and then reveal her troubles. The arc was way too soon.
I began another novel of hers, "Moment of Truth" - it had the same structure where you know what and who did the deed way too early in the story. I like my stories to have more mystery longer and then get the good guy off the hook. BTW - I didn't finish "Moment of Truth" I knew "who done it" and really wasn't interested in how long the characters would lie for each other. I had no interest in a character who chooses to be a martyr.
Rated by buyers -
I did like this book, the very first I've read by this author. I thought the heroine was a bit unlikely, especially in that she engages in an extrememly dangerous habit and seems to suffer none of the obvious consequences - getting beaten up (actually bruised, not threatened), raped, contracting STDs, etc. But....it's entertainment, right? Some parts of the book were very funny, and for that I'm willing to deal with the unrealistic parts. For reference, I also like Janet Evanovich, Robin Cook, Linda Fairstein, and Jonathan Kellerman - if you agree with me on those, you will probably enjoy this one too.
Rated by buyers -
This is the very first Scottoline book I have read and it was good. Nice easy read. Fairly suspensful, well put together with some interesting aspects. It is the perfect trip companion for some entertaining fiction. I would recommend it as good as watching an episode of law and order.
Find other books like this one:
