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Word: ballestrino (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2003-2003
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...Doesn't she realize it's supposed to be hard-boiled to the point of inedibility? None of Your Business is actually a magnificently dry social comedy, cunningly smuggled inside a meticulously researched, perfectly paced police procedural, like a virus packaged in a witty e-mail. As Sprague and Ballestrino worry away at a thin trail of clues, they banter and snipe at each other, stress about their expanding waistlines and diminishing love lives and generally behave like real human beings. It's an episode of Law & Order scripted by Candace Bushnell. And if that's not enough, for maximum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Read Only One Mystery Novel This Summer... | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

...clients' money, which was snaffled away via a tangled network of stolen laptops and offshore accounts. Under suspicion: said missing accountant, plus his wife, now a fading ex-model, and his workaholic office assistant, who never had much to fade from. On the case: Detectives Dennis Sprague and Anthony Ballestrino, Computer Crimes Squad. Yes, they carry guns, and no, they're not sensitive about being computer detectives. Well, maybe a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Read Only One Mystery Novel This Summer... | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

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