This Changes Everything

This Changes Everything is book 2 in the Julia series by Lisa Scottoline. Julia Pritzker is living in Tuscany with her new husband and child, but she still misses her best friend Courtney back in the United States. One night, while the two women are on the phone, Julia has a terrible premonition just before Courtney walks into her grandmother’s farmhouse in Pennsylvania. Courtney then finds her grandmother murdered, and the killer is not far away, just then still escaping from the house.

The police think it was a burglary gone wrong, but Julia and Courtney don’t believe that theory. So they bring in Philadelphia lawyer Bennie Rosato, whom we know from the Rosato & Associates series, to help. Courtney also guides Julia to trust the strange intuition she has but doesn’t fully understand. But once Julia starts looking for answers, she becomes a target herself.

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.

Part of the Julia series – see the full reading order on the Lisa Scottoline Books in Order page.