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Scribner, August 2007
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1416575332
ISBN-13: 9781416575337
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IS HOMICIDAL INSANITY EVER A LEGAL JUSTIFICATION FOR MURDER?
Cape Cod attorney Marty Nickerson, formerly a prosecutor, faces hard questions as defense attorney for Buck Hammond. With TV cameras rolling, Buck took justice into his own hands. Now he is charged with murder one but he refuses the only viable defense: insanity. Marty and her partner in love and law, Harry Madigan, are already stretched thin when, on the eve of Buck's trial, a bleeding woman staggers into their office. Her attacker has just been found -- dead -- and he's an officer of the court. Now Marty has two seemingly impossible cases. But legal motions and courtroom strategy may be the least of her worries, as shocking revelations soon bring fear to the Cape and devastating twists to Buck's trial....
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Chapter 1Chicago Tribune
If you get into a legal jam while on vacation in Cape Cod this summer the lawyer to call is definitely Marty Nickerson.
Publishers Weekly
Excellent...smart, sassy and exciting.
The Washington Post
First-rate, suspenseful entertainment.
Booklist[A] poignant debut novel. Recommend Connors to fans of Perri O'Shaughnessy and Lisa Scottoline.
Los Angeles TimesWhat brings Absolute Certainty into tight focus is Marty herself, an earnest single mom who's not immune to the charms of her rumpled courtroom adversary turned unlikely ally, Harry Madigan.
CapeWomen magazineConnors wears her legal erudition lightly, but the courtroom proceedings are compellingly authentic...Marty Nickerson is a wonderful protagonist
-- smart, funny and compassionate.
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