"Connors handles her material beautifully."
Washington Post Book World

"Connors smartly keeps her sleuthing tight and her courtroom acrobatics
succinct for another excellent, fast-moving courtroom drama headed by a
plucky, energetic heroine."Publishers Weekly

"A quick read with plenty of interesting twists and turns, this fourth outing by
established trial attorney Connors is sure to please courtroom-drama fans."
Booklist

"Even on the dangerously overcrowded current calendar of legal thrillers, there's
room for this kind of sprightly stuff."Chicago Tribune

What does a lawyer do with a client who may be a liar, or worse? Marty Nickerson
struggles with that issue as she defends two men who are surely guiltyor are they?

Charles Kendrick, a senior U.S. senator, is a suspect in the disappearance of a young
female staff member. A multistate manhunt is already underway, and the district
attorney is pressuring Kendrick for an interview, which his lawyer, Marty, doesn't want
to grant. At the same time, Marty and her law partner and lover, Harry Madigan, are
preparing the defense of a man accused of murdering a priest. Both defendants are lying,
but to whom? And can their actions be justified?

Marty and Harry must confront the law in all its maddening complexity, battling for and
against their own cagey clients in order to see justice served.

Rose Connors received her law degree from Duke University in 1984 and has been a trial attorney for two decades. She is the author of Absolute Certainty, which won the Mary Higgins Clark Award for best first novel. She lives with her family on Cape Cod, where she spends summers commercial shell fishing with her two teenage sons