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Rose Connors, whose debut novel, Absolute Certainty, won the Mary Higgins Clark Award, grew up in Philadelphia and received her law degree from Duke in 1984. A trial attorney for eighteen years, she's had experience from the prosecutorial and defense sides of the courtroom, and has exasperated any number of judges in both capacities. She is admitted to practice in both Washington State and Massachusetts and lives with her family on Cape Cod, where she is at work on the next Marty Nickerson novel.

Rose Connors, whose debut novel Absolute Certainty was a finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award, grew up in Philadelphia and received her law degree from Duke in 1984. A trial attorney for eighteen years, she's had experience from the prosecutorial and defense sides of the courtroom, and has exasperated any number of judges in both capacities. She is admitted to practice in both Washington State and Massachusetts and lives with her family on Cape Cod, where she is at work on the next Marty Nickerson novel.

The Washington Post

Connors somewhat stacks the deck. Not only do the defendant and his lawyers have our sympathy, but the prosecutor is an obnoxious jerk and the judge is a repulsive shrew. There are other things going on in the novel -- a subplot about a battered woman, an attempted murder in the courthouse -- but the real question is what the jury will do about Buck Hammond, and you are not likely to put the book down until you find out. — Patrick Anderson