Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
Buried Evidence
Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
Class/Genre: Mystery Legal Setting Woman Main Character
Hyperion, Sep 2000, $24.95, 368 pp.
She is considered one of the best prosecuting attorneys assigned to the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s Office. Lily Forrester firmly believes in the law and punishment for those who break it. Six years ago (see MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES), Lily and her daughter were victims of a heinous crime until she took the law into her own hands. Lily has never forgiven herself for her actions, but knows she must move on to help her precious daughter enjoy a normal life.
When Lily’s ex-husband is arrested for vehicular homicide, her life teeters on the brink of disaster. He threatens to reveal what he thinks he knows about that crime she committed six years ago if she does not bail him out and obtain a reputable representative to defend him. To add to her confusion, the man she loves, defense attorney Richard Fowler, is back in her life demanding a future together. Even when her former spouse squeals on her to cut a deal on his charges, Richard remains by her side.
It has been too long a time since Nancy Taylor Rosenberg has had a book published, but anyone who loves a terse legal thriller will know she has not lost her magic touch. BURIED EVIDENCE stars a beleaguered heroine in an action-packed story line that starts on page one and never eases on the throttle until the last page is done. Readers will never be sure they know the outcome because the subplots take the audience to and from the central theme with an ease that will leave the audience wondering how the novel will end. Her latest novel has plenty of evidence proving that Ms. Rosenberg remains one of the sub-genre’s top maestros.
Harriet Klausner
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