“Lawyers Gone Bad,” is the story of beleaguered attorney disciplinary counsel, Dean Alessi, and his trusty investigator, Stu Foley, in their fight against lawyers gone bad – that is, lawyers who commit ethical and criminal wrongs. In this case they’re investigating the local District Attorney, who may have committed the ultimate ethical wrong - murder.
Novelist Vincent Scarsella draws on his over 18 years of real life experience as head of the Eighth Judicial District Grievance Committee in Buffalo, New York to craft a gripping, suspenseful novel about lawyers gone bad.
But the story is more than a crime novel. It concerns friendship, loss, unrequited love, and ultimately, justice. It seeks to answer the question, does what goes around, come around? "Lawyers Gone Bad,” follows on the success of Vincent Scarsella’s debut crime novel, “The Anonymous Man”, about which The Buffalo News said: "’The Anonymous Man’ gets decent marks for creativity and intricacy...it's a fast read that runs through familiar local settings to a satisfying conclusion. Scarsella has the makings of a good storyteller...he and [Jack] Fox could go places."
"Scarsella spices [his tale] with saucy language when needed and street lingo where appropriate. He keeps the suspense at high level until the answers unfold." - The Buffalo News
Praise for Scarsella's debute crime novel, The Anonymous Man:"The Anonymous Man gets decent marks for creativity and intricacy... Scarsella has the makings of a good storyteller...he and [Jack] Fox could go places." - The Buffalo News

Lawyers Gone Bad

Scarsella, Vincent L.

Literature & Fiction

Digital Crime Fiction, an Imprint of Digital Fiction Publishing Corp.

You only have to die once to become anonymous. With the help of his wife and best friend, Jerry Shaw does just that. Then, they betray him.Jerry had always wanted to publish his own superhero comics, especially about his hero, The Anonymous Man, but instead had found himself stuck in a dead-end job as a computer software rep. Then, one day, he, his wife, Holly, and best friend, Jeff Flaherty, conspire to fake his death to collect on his $4 million life insurance policy. Once they actually pulls it off, Jerry goes into hiding as a dead man without an identity - that is, an anonymous man. But he soon learns that his wife and best friend are having an affair and plan to kill him.
Angry to have learned that his wife, Holly, and best friend, Jeff Flaherty, have planned to murder him faking his death to collect Jerry's $4 million life insurance policy, Jerry implements a plan to frame them for his faked death. After their arrest for his murder, Jerry attends their trial but finds that he still has feelings for Holly and comes up with another plan to save her from years in jail for a crime she didn't commit - by making her become anonymous.
Jerry takes Holly down to Florida near Disney World where he is living with Jade, a beautiful escort he'd met shortly after hiding out after faking his death. Jerry hides Holly at a cheap motel and while trying to figure out a way to help her, while keeping Jade happy, Holly betrays Jerry again by telling Jeff where she's hiding out. When Jeff ambushes Jerry in her motel room and tries to strangle him to death, Jade comes to the rescue and saves Jerry's life while leaving Holly and Jeff in the motel room to be captured by the local police for violating their bail.
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The Anonymous Man gets decent marks for creativity and intricacy...it's a fast read that runs through familiar local settings to a satisfying conclusion...Scarsella has the makings of a good storyteller...he and [Jack] Fox could go places. - The Buffalo News</li>
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★★★★★ Writer Vincent Scarsella is a tricky guy. If he disappears one day nobody will ever find him. I know this, how? The Anonymous Man is a handy guide to absconding with a ton of loot and rebooting your present mundane existence. Couple things, though. Don't attend your own funeral. And make sure you really, really trust your wife and best friend. - Rusty Clark</li>
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★★★★★ The book starts with Jerry observing his own funeral and then goes back to tell the preceding events. What follows twists and turns with an investigator hot on their heels - I don't want to ruin the story but would highly recommend this book and will look out for this author in the future. - Kay Bagridge</li>
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<li>Crime Fiction</li>
<li>Thriller</li>
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The Anonymous Man

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

“The lawyer was crying...” Legal Discipline Office Director, Dean Alessi, and his Chief Investigator, Stu Foley, are back investigating lawyers gone bad - this time the state’s top personal injury firm, Craig & Craig, run by ruthless brothers, Larry and David Craig, for sending clients to bad doctors for bogus surgeries to increase the value of their cases. The day after a young associate lawyer of the firm comes in crying and tells Dean and Stu that his client has died on the operating table during one of these surgeries, he commits suicide. But was it really suicide or was the young lawyer murdered by the Craig brother’s henchman, Nick “Sonny” Folino, a former mob associate, to keep him quiet? Despite State Supreme Court Chief Justice Krane’s admonition that no further disciplinary investigations involving the Craigs or their firm be commenced while they are using their political might to help him get the vacant seat on the US Supreme Court, Dean and Stu secretly investigate the young lawyer’s claims and his suspicious death. In doing so, they find themselves in mortal danger. Packed with surprising twists and turns leading to a thrilling conclusion, the story also continues to explore the friendship between Dean and Stu, Dean and Laura’s troubled marriage, and his unrequited affair with LDO staff attorney, Kat Franklin. “Personal Injuries” takes the reader on a rip-roaring ride investigating more lawyers gone bad. In the process, it just may answer that ages-old adage, should you really be careful what you wish for?

Personal Injuries (Lawyers Gone Bad Series)

Thrillers & Suspense

“The prosecutor was crying...” Legal Discipline Office Director Dean Alessi and his Chief Investigator Stu Foley return in this third installment of the Lawyers Gone Bad series to open another “unofficial” investigation into lawyers gone bad. This time, their investigation may scuttle the hopes of Buffalo Stallions fans for a trip to the Super Bowl as they dig into whether the local District Attorney has been bribed by the Stallions’ owner to dismiss a rape investigation into the team’s young star QB, Jake Riley. After the prosecutor who had handled Riley’s rape investigation cries during her secret meeting with Dean, he enlists Foley to help him uncover whether the DA was paid off. But as their investigation gets going, Dean and Foley find that there are others, including the Stallions’ arch rival and perennial AFC champs, the Atlantic Colonials, interested in either revealing or burying the truth. That spells trouble not only for the Stallions, but for the alleged rape victim and a witness; and ultimately for Dean and Foley. Complicating matters along the way, the state Supreme Court’s Chief Justice, Chip Krane, and Dean’s former boss and now Supreme Court associate justice, Brad Gunther, are back monitoring his every move. All this culminates in an exciting and surprising conclusion that proves the old adage, “winning is everything.” It also answers the question central to all Buffalo Stallions’ fans – will the Stallions ever make it to another Super Bowl? Books 1 and 2 of the Bestselling Lawyers Gone Bad series, “Lawyers Gone Bad” and “Personal Injuries” have won praise from critics and readers alike! Join the legion of readers interested in finding out just how bad lawyers can be.

Winning is Everything: A Lawyers Gone Bad Novel (Lawyers Gone Bad Series)

Fiction, Digital

Based substantially on Ernest Becker's 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning "The Denial of Death," this book promotes the establishment of a revolutionary cultural system, the "Genuine Hero System," that satisfies the human need to overcome the stark reality of death while also advancing the establishment of an enlightened society. "The Human Manifesto" argues that unless such a system is adopted, the human species will continue to be motivated to engage in destructive or trivial behavior that falls short in enabling individuals to attain genuine happiness and fulfillment. Indeed, unless the radical changes it espouses are realized, the species will fail to reach its highest spiritual, intellectual and technological potential. Humanity will never reach the stars and worse, as Becker feared, will be doomed to extinction.

The Human Manifesto: A General Plan for Human Survival

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Mill City Pr

Unusual Suspects: Digital Crime Fiction Short Story Collection

Short Stories & Anthologies

A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO LOSE...Imagine a world in which nearly everyone has lost their ability to think. That's exactly the world Franklin Strock wakes up into one morning. His wife and his neighbors .... and seemingly everyone else, appears afflicted by a total inability to remember who they are and worse, how to do even the simplest things. He soon realizes that something has erased the minds of most everyone except he and a small handful of others. The mind plague struck America just before dawn eastern standard time when most everyone across the country was asleep. When those afflicted woke up, they simply laid in bed, staring up at the ceiling, unable to recall what to do next, how to get out of bed, shower, dress, have breakfast, go to work or school. The hours and days past and still they laid in bed until eventually, they starved to death. Weeks and months later, millions upon millions of withered skeletons still laid in their beds. Across the world, when the plague struck, cars went off the road, jet planes fell from the sky, people stood in their tracks, conversations ceased. And like their American counterparts, everyone who survived the initial mayhem, eventually starved to death and the streets of the great cities of the world were soon littered with corpses. In less than a month, billions died. And humanity seemed doomed. But like a handful of others, Franklin Strock escaped the ravages of the plague. With Ellie, his wife, who'd lost her mind and become a blank, he retreated to an uncle's cabin deep in the woods. In the months that followed, he obtained all the food and supplies he needed to survive from the abandoned homes and stores in the nearby lifeless villages, towns and cities, while trying to awaken Ellie's mind and bring back the woman she was before the plague. And then, nine months after the plague struck down humanity, while napping in an old recliner on the front porch of the cabin one warm, lazy afternoon in mid-June, Strock was awakened by the roar of a motorcycle approaching on a state highway a quarter mile down from the cabin. As the bike rounded a curve on the highway in front of the cabin, it hit something on the road and careened off the road. Little did Strock realize that by going down to help the biker, he'd be introduced to the world that arose after the Mind Plague struck. Scarsella's eight crime and speculative fiction novels have been widely praised by reviewers and readers alike. Join him in this dystopian fable in which battling forces vie for the minds and hearts of their fellow man who's minds have gone blank.

Mind Plague: Vincent L. Scarsella

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Digital Science Fiction, an imprint of Digital Fiction Publishing Corp.

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