Lisa Scottoline
Lisa Scottoline (/ˌskɒtəˈliːni/; born July 1, 1955) is an American author of legal thrillers.[1] She clerked for judges at the state and federal appellate courts and later became a litigator at Dechert in Philadelphia.She has since written 30 bestselling novels, including Look Again and Don't Go, both which reached number two on The New York Times Best Seller list.[citation needed] Since March 2007, Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella have been writing the "Chick Wit" column for The Philadelphia Inquirer.[6][7] A collection of those humorous nonfiction columns has been published in a series of bestselling books co-written with her daughter Francesca Serritella, the first of which is entitled Why My Third Husband Will Be A Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman and published on November 24, 2009.