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Praise for SULLIVAN’S JUSTICE
“Begins with an eerie
leave-the-lights on murder and ends up with a high speed chase.
In between are breathtaking action and non-stop suspense. Love,
hate, lust, revenge, and dark ambition drive the characters in
SULLIVAN’S JUSTICE…and those are the good guys!....Rosenberg’s
personal experience in law enforcement brings a chilling reality
to this page turner.”
Sandra Brown, New York Times
Best Selling Author
April
15, 2005
NEW YORK
DAILY NEWS review of SULLIVAN’S LAW
Sunday, May
23, 2004
Parole
officer's double trouble
By PEG FINUCANE
Sunday, May 23, 2004 Sullivan's Law, a By Nancy Taylor
Rosenberg, Kensington Books, $24 It can be a problem to introduce doubt into the plot of a
legal thriller, but Nancy Taylor Rosenberg found a neat device
for "Sullivan's Law," her ninth novel. By making a key player a
schizophrenic, Rosenberg contrasts that character's lifelong
uncertainty about what is reality and what is delusion with the
heroine's need to establish evidentiary proof of both her
logical and intuitive conclusions. Daniel Metroix, convicted of
killing a cop's son, is one of two problems facing Carolyn
Sullivan, a probation officer in Ventura County,
Calif. The other is Fast Eddie Downly, a Sullivan parolee
implicated in a sexual attack on a child. Metroix can barely
move through post-prison society, and Downly moves too easily.
Sullivan quickly discovers she must keep Metroix safe from
people who want to kill him. At the same time, she must keep
Downly from trying to kill another child. She must do both
while going to law school at night, rearing two teenagers by
herself and somehow getting a love life. A few plot devices
mesh a little too smoothly - for example, Sullivan's law-school
professor just happens to know the judge she needs to cut
through a legal knot. But the novel is
engaging overall with enough
excitement to keep thrill-seekers happy.
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Publisher's
Weekly - April 2004
Sullivan's Law Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor ISBN: 0-75-820618-6
Kensington Publishing Corporation Hardcover $24.00 2004/05
Single mom, part-time law student and overworked Ventura
County probation officer Carolyn Sullivan is Rosenberg's
(Mitigating Circumstances; Interest of Justice; etc.) latest
heroine to find herself staring danger in the face. Sullivan's
troubles begin when one of her probationers, Fast Eddie-whom she
hasn't seen in months-rapes an eight-year-old girl. New parolee
Daniel Metroix presents a different challenge: the brilliant
schizophrenic might be innocent of the crime that put him in
prison, the murder of the then police chief's son. Despite
warnings from her ex-boyfriend boss, Sullivan investigates that
23-year-old crime as well as the former police chief, his family
and his henchmen. After Metroix's hotel room explodes during
Sullivan's visit, destroying his notes for what may be a
brilliant invention, Metroix's enemies
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threaten Sullivan, too. Her career's in jeopardy, her life and
children are in danger, and Sullivan has no one to turn to
except the sympathetic judge who teaches her law class and the
handsome professor who just moved to her neighborhood. Rosenberg
uses her firsthand knowledge of law enforcement to create
convincing sketches of criminal predators, mental patients and
hardworking civil servants in this fast-paced romantic thriller.
Often sacrificing authenticity for drama and subtlety for
sentiment, Rosenberg
crams her stories with coincidences (e.g., the professor teaches
physics, which is also the hobby of Sullivan's 15-year-old son
and Metroix). But readers will overlook these flaws, especially
since Sullivan is so human and determined that it's almost
impossible not to race to the end to see what happens to her
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