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...Grisham's Law It should be a snap to adapt a John Grisham thriller. Read the novel, compress the exciting first half, rewrite the rest, keep it moving. Well, the films of The Firm and The Pelican Brief maunder and mope as if Grisham were Graham Greene. Not that it makes any difference. The Firm was 1993's third biggest grosser; Pelican is a cool Christmas...
...unlocking the door in the attic, she starts to suspect that something is fishy, which leads her down the trail to hoodoo—a cousin of voodoo practiced in Louisiana. And there is the necessary semi-love interest in the form of lawyer Luke, played in true John Grisham style with the twang and the charm of Peter Sarsgaard...
...Blue Cult jeans and Ralph Lauren sweater, the gold Cartier bracelet and the white S500 Mercedes. Her home--a stylishly refurbished Pennsylvania farmhouse on 43 acres--is a grand monument to a blockbuster career that the author has painstakingly built from the ground up. Sometimes called the female John Grisham, Scottoline (pronounced Scot-oh-lee-nee) is a star among the burgeoning ranks of lawyers turned best-selling novelists. Devil's Corner (HarperCollins; 393 pages), her 12th book, will arrive in bookstores on May 31, and in light of the advance orders at Amazon.com it is well...
...Grisham and Scott Turow were exploding on the scene at the time, and Scottoline was a fan. But she had a gripe with the popular new genre. "I don't think women characters were well realized," she says. "They were the subordinate characters. They were the wife, the spouse, the girlfriend. I thought, I'm a woman trial lawyer. I'm not that rare a bird." She also found the characters too white bread. "I'm an Italian American," she says. "I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood. I saw no Italians and Jews. I want people whom I recognize...
Whatever you call it, she tips her hat to the creator of the genre. John Grisham, she says, "made room for people like me. He showed the interior life of a lawyer. And lawyers aren't always heroes." Or heroines--in the case of Scottoline's protagonists, although, like their creator, they do their job with style, preferably in heels...