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 onday
mornings are hell.
That's what
Carolyn Sullivan is thinking as she arrives at
her office at the Ventura County Probation Department.
She's got a paper due for law school. Two high-energy
kids who need to be in different places at the
same time. A mountain of debt. Her boss is on
the warpath before she even has a chance to grab
her first cup of coffee. But Carolyn's day is
about to get a lot worse...
One of her probationers
has just been arrested for rape. It's a front-page-headline
story that leads squarely back to Carolyn's paper-strewn
desk and overwhelming caseload. Could she have
prevented the crime? She fears the top brass,
pressured by the media, may destroy her career.
Just when Carolyn should be lying low, instead
she's assigned a sensitive case that's sure to
have everyone breathing down her neck--supervising
convicted killer and paranoid schizophrenic Daniel
Metroix.
Twenty-three
years ago, the son of the police chief was pushed
into the path of an oncoming car, and Metroix
went to prison for the boy's murder.
Everything in
Metroix's file indicates that he's unpredictable
and dangerous. But what's more unsettling is his
claim that he's innocent--a claim that crawls
under Carolyn's skin and stays there, especially
when what should be a routine meeting erupts into
an inferno that nearly kills both of them. Was
it a freak accident? Or something far more sinister?
Strange things are happening--and the danger level
is ratcheting up sky-high. Suddenly, Metriox's
story doesn't sound so crazy. Protecting him is
Carolyn's only chance to defend herself and her
family--and to right a wrong that may have sent
an innocent man to prison, while letting a killer
go free.
Carolyn dives
into a case that everyone else seems to want to
keep closed...one that leads behind the glossy
exteriors of Ventura's most prominent sons into
the darkest corners of the American dream. Someone
doesn't want Carolyn to discover the truth. Someone
who knows where she lives, where she goes, who
she sees. Someone who will strike at the very
heart of every mother's worst fear in order to
silence her for good.
In Sullivan's
Law Nancy Taylor Rosenberg introduces a take-no-prisoners
heroine in a taut, razor-sharp thriller filled
with the sort of gritty, realistic details only
a person who's been there could know. |
