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Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author Rose Connors returns with Cape Cod attorney Marty Nickerson in a riveting new legal thriller.At the urgent request of Harry Madigan, Marty takes on the defense of Louisa Rawlings, a woman suspected of murdering her wealthy husband. Harry is Marty's law partner. He's also her lover -- but he used to be Louisa's.Marty is simultaneously intrigued and disturbed by her new client. Louisa Rawlings is Marty's polar opposite. Glamorous and charismatic, she's entrenched in the good life, openly coveting every luxury money can buy. District Attorney Geraldine Schilling believes Louisa was motivated by greed, and to Marty, that motive seems all too plausible. It also seems too tidy. Marty's gut tells her the murderer was motivated by something far more personal.As the evidence against Louisa mounts, though, Marty begins to doubt her own judgment. The people she normally turns to for perspective are incapable of helping her. Her young associate, Kevin Kydd, is so bewitched by Louisa that he's in danger of jeopardizing his entire career. And Marty fears that Harry might be too....Illuminating the law even as she entertains, Rose Connors once again proves that she is a consummate storyteller whose legal expertise and passion for the law shine through on every page.
Reviews (3)
Kirkus Review
A Cape Cod attorney's third hopeless case may be an uphill battle for Connors--and her readers as well. Years before he became Marty Nickerson's partner and lover, Harry Madigan was smitten with one of his law-school classmates, a statuesque southern beauty who couldn't imagine why he'd waste his future on criminal law. Now that she's divorced from more highly paid Glen Powers (trusts and estates) and widowed of even more prosperous Herbert Rawlings (corporate mergers and acquisitions), guilelessly greedy Louisa Rawlings just might need to get reacquainted with the criminal bar. Det. Lt. Mitch Walker isn't sure he buys her story about being out on the links and coming home to find her husband and his boat, the Carolina Girl, missing. And once Herb's body surfaces, tied to some fishing tackle that practically guaranteed it would bob up after a week, the Chatham Police Department is even more suspicious of Louisa's fingerprints on the murder weapon and her two million motives for murder. Insisting that he can't defend Louisa himself, Harry passes him off to Marty and their junior associate, Kevin Kydd, and in a flash the whole firm is legally compromised, their future almost as grim as Louisa's and not much more interesting. Though Judge Leon Long is predictably charmed by Louisa's demure courtroom outbursts, Barnstable County District Attorney Geraldine Schilling seems determined to lock her up for life--unless, of course, Marty can find evidence against Herb's daughter Anastasia, her deadbeat companion Lance Phillips, Louisa's financial advisor Steven Collier, or some other convenient alternative. What are the odds? No ethical quiddities, no fraught cross-examinations, no courtroom coups, no big surprises of any kind whatsoever. After two splendid outings (Temporary Sanity, 2003, etc.), Marty's certainly entitled to a breather, and that's exactly what this fast-moving, deeply ordinary case is. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
In her third outing, a reluctant Marty Nickerson is asked by her law partner and lover, Harry Madigan, to represent Louisa Rawlings, his former girlfriend. Louisa's husband, Herb, disappeared while on a boating trip, and the boat is found without Herb on it. Louisa is due to receive $1 million in life insurance, but both the insurance company and the police are suspicious about Herb's death. When physical evidence ties Louisa to the crime, she is arrested, and Marty must defend a client whose guilt looks increasingly likely. Complicating matters, Marty and Harry's associate, The Kydd, becomes infatuated with the client and commits an indiscretion that may cost him his license to practice law. A nicely detailed Cape Cod setting, appealing and realistically rendered characters, and an engaging romantic relationship between Marty and Harry make this an enjoyable legal thriller, even though the whodunit aspects offer little in the way of a puzzle. --Sue O'Brien Copyright 2004 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Marty is in a fix: law partner and lover Harry wants her to defend his old flame, Luisa, an obvious gold digger accused of doing in her rich husband. Connors won the 2002 Mary Higgins Clark Award. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.