This Changes Everything - by Lisa Scottoline (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

In this "riveting, deeply felt and empowering thriller that is also a touching ode to female friendship" (Laura Dave) from #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline, a woman risks her life to help her closest friend find justice for a tragic crime and realizes she has more power than she ever knew.

Julia Pritzker loves her new life as a wife and mother in beautiful Tuscany--except that she misses her best friend Courtney, back in the States. One night, Julia calls Courtney and reaches her as she's arriving at her grandmother's farm in Pennsylvania.

Then the unthinkable happens. A dreadful premonition overwhelms Julia as Courtney is entering the house--but it's too late to stop Courtney, who makes a heartbreaking discovery. Her beloved grandmother has been murdered, and the killer is escaping out the back door. A distraught Courtney chases him, but he jumps into a pickup truck and gets away.

Julia flies home the next morning to support Courtney in her grief. The local police believe the murder was a botched burglary, but the women suspect something much more sinister. They dig to unearth the truth in a town filled with explosive secrets, and Julia's uncanny intuition points her to the missing pieces of a dark puzzle.

The women call in hotshot Philly lawyer Bennie Rosato, but events take a deadly turn, and Julia becomes the target of a murderous conspiracy. She ends up fighting for her life, with no one to save her ... but herself.

Only a blockbuster talent like Lisa Scottoline can tell this riveting and layered of a story, combining a woman's search for truth with the revelation of her own empowerment, as well as the enduring strength and joys of female friendship.

Review Quotes

"A tense, fast-paced thriller with genuine emotional depth and twists that hit when you least expect them. Lisa Scottoline is at the top of her game!"--Jeneva Rose, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"A riveting, deeply felt and empowering thriller that is also a touching ode to female friendship, This Changes Everything is Lisa Scottoline at her best." --Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me

"When you open a book by Lisa Scottoline, you know the pacing will be brisk, the characters will be easy to love, and the twists will come fast and furious. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING delivers readers from Tuscany to a Pennsylvania teeming with dark secrets. Get ready for a wild ride!" --Jason Rekulak, New York Times bestselling author of The Last One at the Wedding

"This Changes Everything has it all--terrific twists, a breathless pace and a whole lot of heart. This story of a grievous crime and an extraordinary friendship could make me gasp on one page and smile on the next. How rare, yet wonderful: A wildly entertaining thriller with real emotional power."
--Ken Jaworowski, Edgar-Nominated Author of What About The Bodies

"The incomparable Lisa Scottoline delivers a breakneck thriller in which one woman risks everything for justice, as she's pitted against a twisted, deadly conspiracy."--Dennis Tafoya, Critically-Acclaimed Author of Dope Thief

"With This Changes Everything, her immersive and atmospheric new domestic thriller, Lisa Scottoline transports us from Tuscany to rural Pennsylvania and gives us characters to root for, a compelling mystery to solve, and a deeply-felt meditation on the meaning of motherhood and enduring women's friendships. As always, Scottoline scores a bullseye. Bravissima!"--Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times Bestselling Author of Road Trip

"Lisa Scottoline always delivers the fastest, twistiest reads packed with brilliant characters to root for."--Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of Don't Let Him In

About the Author

Lisa Scottoline is the #1 bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of 38 novels. She is the President of Mystery Writers of America and has been named a Thriller Master by International Thriller Writers. A former trial lawyer, she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and its law school, where she taught Justice & Fiction, a course she developed. Lisa also co-wrote a series of humorous memoirs with her daughter, novelist Francesca Serritella. There are 30 million copies of Lisa's books in print, and she is published in 35 countries. She lives on a Pennsylvania farm with an array of disobedient pets, and she wouldn't have it any other way.