Daddy's Girl: a novel by Lisa Scottoline

Not Scottoline's best***June 22, 2007

Natalie "Nat" Greco, a law professor seeking tenure, is teaching a boring class to a small group of bored students when a colleague invites her along to a prison where he does extension work with some inmates. A prison riot breaks out and an inmate attempts to rape Nat. She escapes and runs to help a prison guard who is dying. Before he dies he asks her to tell his wife: "It's under the floor." Nat and her colleague Angus Holt run into many blind allies as they try to decipher the meaning of this phrase.The ending involves a major plot twist. I've read most of Scottoline's earlier work and this is not her best by any measure. Nat's family of jocks is ridiculous, caricatures of real people.