Courting Trouble (2002) is a legal thriller by Lisa Scottoline. The 7th entry in the entertaining Rosato & Associates series.

It follows Anne Murphy, an attorney at the Rosato & Associates law firm, who spends Independence Day at the beach while her house is looked after by an acquaintance who physically resembles her.

However, she learns through the morning paper that the acquaintance has been murdered and that the police have misidentified the body as Murphy.

She chooses to remain legally dead as she reveals to her colleagues that she is alive and asks for their help in investigating the murder as she prepares for an upcoming high-profile court case. …

Zany, yes. Over the top, yes.

But the plot is never the most important thing in these books. It’s the characters.

Oline H. Cogdill of the Daily Press opined that while Scottoline’s “intuitive knack for creating three-dimentional characters who challenge the norm still shines“.