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Description
Martha Nickerson, an assistant district attorney on Cape Cod, speaks for victims of crime and their families and sees the system as a means for doing right. After she wins a murder case, a suspect is put behind bars. But soon another body turns up in disturbingly similar circumstances. Did Marty and her colleagues target the wrong man? If so, Marty fears that the real killer will strike again. With her career on the line and lives at stake, Marty must rely on her own moral compass, legal savvy, and gut instinct as she matches wits with a twisted killer.
“Connors’s first novel offers sleek, straightforward entertainment.” -Publishers Weekly
The pressure is intense to arrest and convict a suspect quickly when a murder occurs in a small Cape Cod town just as the tourist season begins. When a second murder occurs on the first anniversary of the killing, everyone wonders if it's a copycat murder--or was the wrong man convicted? Bernadette Dunne relies on tone and pitch to differentiate the primary characters. She sets an even pace for the narration of the prosecuting attorney, adopting an objective attitude toward events until they begin to hit too close to home. As the plot intensifies, the pace picks up, and Dunne becomes less detached. J.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
