- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Scribner (Aug 1 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1416575332
- ISBN-13: 978-1416575337
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
"It occurs to me, as I pack up my briefcase," says Cape Cod attorney Marty Nickerson, "that I'm two for two. First in Buck Hammond's case, and now in this one, I'm arguing that the dead guy deserved it. I've barely begun my career with the defense bar, but I seem to be developing a niche." Any niche is a good niche for Marty-who in Connors's smart, sassy and exciting second crime novel (after 2002's Absolute Certainty) has switched from ace prosecutor to determined defender without missing a beat. Marty and her lover, former Barnstable County public defender Harry Madigan, have plunged into private practice, taking on the controversial case of Hammond-a distraught father who shot, on live television, the man who raped and murdered his seven-year-old son. Then, to add to single mother Marty's impossible work load as Christmas approaches, a savagely battered woman client is charged with the stabbing death of her attacker, a brutal parole officer. Connors, a veteran trial attorney, has a rich enough stock of mordant legal anecdotes to keep her going for years. Even more important, she is so good at creating believable characters (two very different judges, a sardonically ambitious but sympathetic district attorney, a couple of winning teenagers) that even readers with little interest in courtroom shenanigans should find in favor of her humanity.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
Attorney Marty Nickerson has left the Barnstable County (Cape Cod) D.A.'s office to go into private practice with former public defender Harry Madigan. Their first case is to defend Buck Hammond, the man who killed Hector Monteros, murderer of Hammond's young son. It's a seemingly impossible case since Hammond committed the crime in front of numerous witnesses and on live television. At the same time, Marty takes on the case of Sonia Baker, who is accused of killing her abusive boyfriend, parole officer Howard Davis. Along the way, Marty shares her home with Sonia's teenage daughter, affording readers a glimpse into the heroine's personal life. Marty narrates the tale in an ingratiating conversational style, with touches of humor but also with explanations of the laws involved. Characters are well defined, and the courtroom scenes are both exciting and realistic. For readers who enjoy a suspenseful legal thriller with a strong female protagonist. Sue O'Brien
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good reading mystery,
By KatPanama "katpanama" (Readerville) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Temporary Sanity: A Crime Novel (Hardcover)
Thoroughly enjoyable courtroom procedural; it appealed to me quite a lot and I thought it a pretty darn good first novel. My fave bit occurs when the prosecuting attorney, after having been accused by defendent's attorney of trying to silence her, yells in response: "... the National Guard couldn't silence her." The resolution was not unexpected so much as unrealisted.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Courtroom thrills,
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This review is from: Temporary Sanity: A Crime Novel (Hardcover)
Marty Nickerson, a former prosecuting attorney, is now working for the first time as a defence attorney in Cape Cod and is called upon to defend Buck Hammond, a man with a spotless record who shot Hector Monteros, the man who kidnapped and brutally raped Buck's young son. The trouble is that a TV news crew filmed the event as it happened and that Buck refuses to use a plea of temporary insanity, insisting that he knew what he was doing and would do it again. Marty teams with Harry Madigan, her law partner and lover to produce a credible defence in the face of overwhelming evidence and at the same time, defend a battered woman whose live-in attacker was murdered. M/s Connors own courtroom experience comes into play here with her expert knowledge of procedures and some almost unbelievable courtroom characters who, one only prays, we will never have to face in person. I look forward to her next book.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't Waste Your Time on This Sequel,
By A Customer
This review is from: Temporary Sanity: A Crime Novel (Hardcover)
This is the second Marty Nickerson legal mystery and it's no better than the first. There's just no spark here, not much that's original or interesting. The prose is dull, and the characters are unimaginatively drawn. For example, the African American judge, and D.A. J.Stanley Edgerton's relationship with the judge, are very similar to what we saw in Grisham's "The Client," especially the Susan Sarandon movie version; and of course Grisham does it way better. The plot (father kills his young son's murderer) is transparently similar to an actual case where a father killed his daughter's rapist, a case that has been on TV shows like American Justice many times. The subplots, too, were trite and did not compel me to keep reading. I received this and the previous Nickerson novel as gifts: out of politeness I slogged through the first book but couldn't finish this one.
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