“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>
<li>Noir</li>
<li>Mystery Fiction</li>
<li>Life Insurance Thriller</li>
<li>Fraud Fiction</li>
<li>Insurance Fraud Fiction</li>
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<li>Romance</li>
<li>Murder</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.

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