Bennie Rosato

Corrupted by Lisa Scottoline takes place in and around Pennsylvania’s largest city, Philadelphia. The story takes place over 13 years, in 2002 and 2015. The main character, Bennie Rosato, is tied to the story because she is a trial lawyer, owning her own law firm with her partners. Flashback to 2002, Bennie takes on a juvenile case even though she doesn't practice juvenile law. Her case involves Jason Leftkavick an eleven year old boy thrown into the Juvenile detention center for getting into a fight with another child, Richie Grusini, at school. Bennie later gets fired from the case because she had relations with Richie’s uncle, Declan, which aggravated Jason’s dad. Declan breaks up with Bennie to deal with all his family drama but what he
Throughout the book Bennie is not shy about her lawyer mentality. She is willing to admit every time that she is at heart a truly intense attorney. The way she holds herself is not only a representation of her confidence in her abilities but also her love of her job. The way she unapologetically performs in the courtroom eventually even convinces Declan to quit his job as a state policeman and start studying law. On page 261, “Bennie sat down, picked up her pen, and drew a line down the top page of her legal pad, the time-honored technique of trial lawyers
She loved her life as it was, without a man. She loved her perfect little house, with her big dog, and her amazing job. While soul searching, she examines her house. On page 98, “Everything she saw was just the way she wanted it, wasn’t it?”, “She looked around at the house with new eyes, wondering if there was room for a man in her home, or her life.” and on page 99, “noticing that everything in the room were objects she loved and had collected over the years, but all of them were about her.” Bennie is critical of her house, because it is so much like her, filled with everything important to her. She would bring a key to her house with her on her vacation, not just so she can get in when she gets back, but because that house is all hers. One of the things in Bennie’s house is her oar, hung with “her beloved Thomas Eakins lithographs of rowers on the Schuylkill River”, she becomes very critical of these items when she thinks about Declan seeing her house. She talks about how she was on the rowing team in college, and it is obviously very important to her. On page 99, “the real oar mounted at the top of the wall, with the red-and-blue-painted blade of the University of Pennsylvania, her alma mater.” She would bring this oar with her, this is where she decides, she doesn’t care if Declan doesn’t like it because it is important to